Best Needed Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.”

Trying Action Wanted Pain Felt Acting Study Plans New York Hero Needed Action Heroes

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.”

Ifs Way War Matter Kids Talking Minutes Emotional Needed Shapes Adults Contact Life And Death One Minute Handy Emotional Life Way Of Talking

Author:Richard Louv

“On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.”

Together Community Industry Needed Raises Victim Grateful Aids Native Japan Working Together Fund Culinary Behalf Hospitality Earthquakes I Am Grateful Tsunami

Author:Masaharu Morimoto

“I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.”

Mean Home Law Saws Crime Needed Protect Towns Victim Protection Crowns Attorney Home Town Nova Scotia Novas

Author:Peter MacKay

“We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.”

Trying Firsts Hard Wanted Individual Sound Needed Fit Unique Really Happy One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.”

Littles Said Used Mother Air Needed Draws Fingers Pencils

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.”

Industry Needed Cost Reasonable Relief Regulation Housing Affordable

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.”

Source: The Art of War

“I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.”

People Ifs I Can Done Helping Hands Would Be Remember Forget Needed Engineers Ungrateful Jamaica Needed Help Ungrateful People

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.”

Children Felt Interesting Acting Trouble Needed Focused Compare Stay Focused

Author:Diane Lane

“I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.”

Ifs Way Would Be Needed Performances Casts Disappointed

Author:Trevor Nunn

“When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.”

Years Kids Actors Company Week Needed Mets Members Theater Towns

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.”

People Want Years Whole Wanted Felt Chance Four Missing College Needed Balance Involved Scared Whole Life Pushing Four Years Hoping For The Best Time Passes

Author:Guy Oseary

“I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear.”

Knows Know How Proud Needed Producers Proud Of You

Author:Cat Power

“I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.”

Persons Long I Can Pay Becoming Needed Long Time Managers Homeless Mortgage

Author:Cat Power

“My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.”

Knows Stuff Successful Needed Dad Unions My Dad Grades Contractor Eighth Grade

Author:Mitch Pileggi

“As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.”

Thinking Years Use Young Next Quality Boys Needed Discipline Chairs Dozen Neurotic Cheaper Use Of Time

Author:Ridley Pearson

“I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.”

Writing Cases Minutes Needed Paper Letters Scared Pockets Forty Pens Coming Back Bumps Paper And Pen

Author:Daniela Pestova

“Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.”

War Support Needed Iraq Resolution Troops Consistently Initials Armor Supplies Our Troops Approving Support The Troops Support Our Troops

Author:Ed Pastor

“We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.”

Believe House Given Millions Needed Billions Pounds Housing Discounts Public Housing

Author:John Prescott

“More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.”

Cutting Needed Eurozone

Author:Lucas Papademos

“In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.”

People Men Rights Movement Color Needed Demand Equal Civil Rights Equal Rights

Author:Pauley Perrette

“I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.”

Helping Age Needed Fifteen

Author:Paulina Porizkova

“What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.”

Want Government Needed International Protection Peacekeeping Darfur

Author:Samantha Power

“It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.”

Eye Stuff Stupid Needed Public Eye

Author:Zara Phillips

“What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.”

Said Easy Study Events Needed Credit Cash Regulation

Author:John Redwood

“The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.”

Jobs Numbers Needed Clean Lawyer Mess

Author:Steven Rattner

“I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.”

Ifs Thinking Moments Difficult Steps Needed

Author:John Slattery

“If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.”

Ifs Would Be Kids Jobs Left Needed Husband Confused Your Husband Diapers So Confused

Author:Barbara Steele

“Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.”

Different Play Beautiful Support Gone College Needed Glad Piano Muscles Scholarship Different Experiences Flexing

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina...And we'll make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted, and not welcome.”

Needs Wells Country States Wanted Values Needed Unions South Conservative Welcome Carolina South Carolina Conservative Values

Author:Nikki Haley

“Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!”

Way Giving Said Shows Earth Moving Needed Give Me Fulcrum

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

“Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.”

“We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.”

Important Church Decision Genius Needed Harder Profound Theology Feminine Work Harder Important Decisions

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.”

Ifs I Can Sometimes Helping Voice Hurt Stage Needed Balance Singing Ears Loud Help Me

Author:Aaron Tveit

“When Ben Stiller and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'”

Way Firsts Littles Long Said Stills Kids Felt Bits Needed Prove Letting Go Married Little Bit Long Way Just Let Go

Author:Christine Taylor

“Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.”

Firsts Steps Needed First Steps

Author:Jim Talent

“When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.”

Kind Littles Bigs Young Bits Loses Identity Needed Band Little Bit Get Away

Author:Roger Meddows Taylor

“I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.”

Writing Home Seems Wanted Film Boys Taken Needed Hey Visuals Screenplays Mississippi Hometown Just Saying

Author:Tate Taylor

“I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.”

School Effort Acting Painting Needed High School Outlets Collaborative Effort

Author:James Franco

“In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.”

People Littles Ends Helping Bits Needed Involved Little Bit Evita

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.”

Way Writing Made Use Memories Fiction Happened Needed My Family Meaningful Novelists Mature Writing Fiction

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.”

Language Needed Power Of Language Language And Power

Author:Leon Wieseltier

“We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years”

Years Real States Problem Gone Needed Balance Importance South Checks Accountability Transparency Carolina South Carolina Needed Someone

Author:Gwen Ifill

“Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.”

World Real Voice Differences Movement Needed Aids Hiv Devastated Hiv Aids

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.”

“Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.”

Enough Christian Sin Needed Holy Hatred Christian Inspirational God Love Indignation Enough Love

Author:Vance Havner

“We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.”

People Needs Light Age Christian Young Fire Youth Needed Christian Inspirational Old People

Book:Day by Day

Source: Day by Day

“In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.”

Said Home Wanted Prayer Needed Sanctuary Firefighter

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

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