Selected needs quotes

1. There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

2. That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

3. What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

4. I don't need a great deal of love but I do need a steady supply.

5. I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

6. You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

7. Please, sir, I want some more.

8. The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

9. Man wants little, nor that little long.

10. When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

11. Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

12. So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

13. I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

14. It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

15. Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.

16. Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.

17. You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?

18. An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

19. Beggars should be no choosers.

20. Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

21. You try to give away what you want yourself.

22. The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

23. Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

24. Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

25. Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

26. To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

27. What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

28. Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.

29. No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

30. There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

31. Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

32. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'

33. The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

34. I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

35. It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

36. Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.

37. Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.

38. 'You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.'

39. A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

40. Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities - his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.

41. 47. I need 47 energy.

42. Gimme yo damn sandwich.

43. Enough! or too much.

44. A hungry man is not a free man.

45. Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.

46. In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

47. Je weniger einer, in Folge objektiver oder subjektiver Bedingungen, notig hat, mit den Menschen in Beruhrung zu kommen, desto besser ist er daran.

48. Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence. If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

49. If you are going to organize and ask for commitment, you cannot go to the most desperately poor. They are not likely to take action. If you stand on a man's head and push it into the dirt, he may not even see the heel of your boot. But if his whole face is already above ground, he can see your heel and he can see freedom ahead.

50. What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

51. Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

52. Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

53. Yes, I haven't had enough sex.

54. Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

55. Fidelity is important as long as it's pure. But the moment it goes against your insides - if you want to be somewhere else, if she wants to dabble - then you need to make a change. (1998)

56. I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

57. Men take only their needs into consideration-never their abilities.

58. Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

59. Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

60. We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.

61. I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.

62. The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

63. A full 'definition of an object must include the whole of human experience, both as a criterion of truth and a practical indicator of its connection with human wants.

64. Cold comfort to fill their hungry bellies.