Needs Quotes

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

Your body will tell you what it needs.

During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.