We need to appreciate how precious life is.
Shelley Fabares

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Victor Hugo

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Victor Hugo

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein

Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?
Jon Stewart

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Susan Sontag

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.
Farrah Fawcett

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
Thomas Sowell

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.
Charles Manson

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Laozi

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Douglas Adams

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
Emma Goldman

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Wangari Maathai

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
Wangari Maathai

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
Thomas Friedman

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
Quentin Tarantino