Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Richard M. Nixon

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
Edith Stein

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Tim Allen

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
Eric Hoffer

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
Jimmy Carter

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Earth needs rebels!
David Icke

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
Sam Abell

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Ralph Nader

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
Carter G. Woodson

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Franz Kafka