To Be Needed Quotes

America is not a special country by accident. It did not happen on its own. It happened because for over 200 years, each generation before us did what needed to be done.

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.

...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.

Trump believes politics is a staged fight. But it is not. Still, clear words are sometimes needed in politics. In that sense, I believe I am better than Mrs. Merkel.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'

Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them.

I needed a song and I need a place to kind of get it out. John Paul [White] was there for me as a friend, and I really appreciated that because I just needed a place to go.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.

All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

Yesterday, we needed justice; today, we need justice; tomorrow, we will need justice! Justice is our eternal need!

Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.

I'm a sexual assault survivor. I have long felt like Bill Cosby needed to be held accountable. But I keep wondering if this is a system that can bring that accountability.

Sam- I didn't know you had a last name I thought you were like Iman or Madonna or Beyonce. You just needed the one name. Dekka- Yeah sure, me and Beyonce

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.

I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.

I needed to stay in the character.

I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know.

People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed.

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

Everything I needed to know I learned in Iowa... I know what it means to be from Iowa - what we value and what's important... I grew up here in Iowa.

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is.

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

I'm the most antimedication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

When I was a kid, I would always write down lists of my favorite things and keep them in my wallet, just in case someone ever needed to know what my 10 favorite foods were, or my 10 favorite actors.

I saw a guy juggling chain saws, it was cool, unless something needed to be sawed down, then it's annoying.

Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?