I Quotes
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“I don’t need savings.
I have the fire that refuses to die,
the breath that steadies me through storms,
the hands that build again and again.
My wealth breathes.
It rises with me each morning.
It speaks through the courage in my chest,
the dignity that stands unbent,
the spirit that multiplies when it is given.
Let the world measure its worth in dollars.
I measure mine in the ways I endure,
in the ways I speak when silence is demanded, in the ways I rise when I am cast down.
I don’t need savings.
I am the treasure
©️Annam M. Gordon”
Source: The Hidden WEIGHT of Ordinary DAYS: You’ll Find Strength Where You Were Shattered
“I don't need the aggravation of my staff members avoiding each other when the sex goes stale. And believe me, it will."
I want to laugh. I want to slap his face. As it is, my breathing comes on quick and fast. "Which means North is really only off limits while I work for you. Good to know."
A streak of red spears across the tops of Macon's cheeks, and I swear the man growls. It rumbles in that wide chest of his as his moth tightens. "He's not for you, Delilah. Unless, of course, you're into having Sam's leftovers."
As if I've been slapped, my breath hitches. Oh, that was low. Not only to me but to North as well. My face feels tight and hot. And for an instant, something that looks like guilt flickers in Macon's brown eyes, but it's quickly smothered by stubborn self-righteousness and a pugnacious lift of his chin.
"Well then," I manage, "I guess that leaves you out of the running too.”
Source: Dear Enemy
“I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“I don't need the deed to the land, Bee. I need the deed to your heart.”
Source: Love in Deed
“I don't need the entirety of my soul to live.”
Source: Life2
“I don’t need the facts. I’m a Pisces.”
Source: Crushed Black Velvet
“I don't need their understanding, but my daughter will--and I hope the minds of her peers are wide open with vibrant hues of passion. i hope they paint the world with color.”
“I don't need three cars and a great big fucking house [for two people]. But I do and I want it. This is the issue.”
“I don't need three cars and a great big fucking house [for two people]. But I do and I want it. This is the issue.
[The Future of the Planet: Life, Growth and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies. SFI Community Lecture, August 29, 2017]”
“I don't need to bang my head on every rock to know they're all hard.”
Source: OuterSphere
“I don't need to be babied. I've taken care of myself for a long time."
"You need all the babying you can get, angel. And something's bothering you. Are you going to tell me what's going on?"
"Go to hell." She slammed down the phone.
She tightened her chin and her resolve. "I didn't expect to see you so soon."
"I was told to go to hell. My connecting flight was delayed so I thought I'd drop in.”
Source: Mirror of My Soul
“I don't need to be tame, because dragons choose their partner by themselves.”
“I don't need to be vocal about my intentions, I am just intentional about my actions.”
“I don't need to believe. I know (God exists).”
“I don't need to believe in what you believe, to love you. But if you believe in exclusive supremacy, I don't need to respect you.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“I don't need to come closer to kill you, but I will come closer to watch you bleed. (Darius)”
Source: Recompense
“I don't need to eat the stuff now because now I'm here-right in the middle of it!The soup I ordered in Colorado had all these little slices of vegetables and things, which at the time just looked like kitchen scrapings to me. But now I'm in the miso soup myself,just like those bits of vegetable. I'm floating around in this giant bowl of it, and that's good enough for me.”
“I don't need to go anywhere, I just need to sit quietly with God for a time. Kind of like a cell phone, turn it off, plug it in, and let it charge.”
“I don’t need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.”
“I don’t need to know knots for the things I do. Why should I learn to tie my shoes?”
Source: Boo's Shoes - A Rabbit and Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces
“I don’t need to know what he has done,” she said, “for no man’s character should determine your character.”
Source: Portrait of a Scotsman
“I don't need to know whether or not we are capable of magic. Because learning to love yourself, and finding people who love yourself too, that's the real magic.”
Source: What Magic Is This?
“I don’t need to learn about computers and the internet. My sperm does it for me”
Source: Steel Dogs
“I don’t need to look good so Jesus can look good; I need to be honest about my colossal spiritual need so he can look all-sufficient.”
“I don’t need to love guys less; I need to love them more, with Christ’s love.”
“I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.”
Source: For Darkness Shows the Stars
“I don’t need to see you to know how breathtakingly beautiful you are, Sophie.” he breathes into my ear “The sun, the stars, this place, it all pales in comparison to you.”
Source: Doubt
“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.”
“I don't need to smell them rotting to know where all your secrets are buried. You can't hide them from me in the Milieu. - The Malwatch”
“I don't need to study. I did last night," he whined, resting his head on my shoulder. "Plus. I can just sniff the paper and —"
"If Yuriel were here, I'm sure he'd throw a water bottle at you for attempting to say you can smell the answers to the test," I interrupted, knowing where his comment was leading.
"I can. It's easy," Dimitri reassured me.
"That's cheating."
"It is if you're caught.”
Source: SSS: Year Two
“I don’t need to tell you not to fuck my buddy. Right.”
The surgeon looked around his little-glass-bottle-and-needle routine. “I’m not thinking of sex at the moment, thank you very much. But if I was, it sure as shit wouldn’t be with him. So instead of worrying about who I’m tapping, how’d you like to do us all a favor and have a shower. You stink.”
Source: Lover Unleashed
“I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!”
Source: Diamond Eyes
“I don’t need to understand the unknown because I have a God for whom this thing was never unknown to begin with. And because it has always been known, I can take the fullest comfort in the fact that the solution to it has never ‘not’ been known.”
“I don't need to write in all these languages of the world - those who care, will find a way. I write in more than one language because I want to. I want to leave at least something extremely personal for every culture in the world - that is, for as many cultures as I humanly can.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“I don't need to write in all these languages of the world - those who care, will find a way. I write in more than one language because I want to. I want to leave at least something extremely personal for every culture in the world - that is, for as many cultures as I humanly can.
However in the end, the universal spirit of love, light and oneness transcends language and culture, and finds a home in the heart of every conscientious human being - and that's what counts. It's the bridge that counts, not the shape it comes in.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“I don’t need words, I just need you to come back.” - Taryn”
Source: Feral Sins
“I don’t need you, but the world, sometimes, seems more peaceful and manageable when holding someone.”
“I don't need you making me feel like an evil person every time I do something. I gave up smoking weed for you and that's a pretty big thing. I can't hold your hand 24 hours a day. Can't hold you 24 hours a day. Can't kiss you 24 hours a day. Can't have sex 24 hours a day.”
Source: Clumsy
“I don´t need you to believe in me/I know how to change my destiny/Sit down, about to rewrite our history”
“I don't need you to protect me.'
'I know. But it's just what friends do, Rhi.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I don't need you to slay my dragons. I can perfectly do it on my own.”
“I don't need you to take care of me."
"No, you need a kick up the arse.”
Source: Waiting for the Flood
“I don't need your byline and your health benefits. I am the future, and you are the past.”
Source: Best Served Hot
“I don’t need your praise
to survive. I was here first,
before you were here, before
you ever planted a garden.
And I’ll be here when only the sun and moon
are left, and the sea, and the wide field.
I will constitute the field.”
Source: The Wild Iris
“I don't need your trust, I need your quality.”
“I don't obey law, I write them.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“I don’t owe you anything. Not my time, not my answers, not my presence. You had your chance, you wasted it, and now you want clarity from the same person you once took for granted. I walked away for a reason. And no, I don’t owe you a single thing anymore.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
“I don't paint what people expect,
I paint what my heart yearns to express.”
“I don't pay much attention to the distinction between fantasy and science fiction–or between “genre” and “mainstream” for that matter. For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors-which is the logic of narratives in general–over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.
We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves–they’re the essence of memory. It is how we make living in this unfeeling accidental universe tolerable. That we call such a tendency “the narrative fallacy” doesn’t mean it doesn’t also touch upon some aspect of the truth.
Some stories simply literalize their metaphors a bit more explicitly.”
Source: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories