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Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. -- Jonathan Lethem
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Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. -- Evita Peron
I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck. -- Anjelica Huston
Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy. -- Abdul Qadeer Khan
I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus. -- Cliff Richard
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. -- Gloria Steinem
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. -- Saint Augustine
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children. -- Amy Dickinson
Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus. -- Ellen G. White
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches. -- George Canning
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. -- Publilius Syrus
I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed. -- Craig Kilborn
I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet. -- Jenny Eclair
Be close tot he poor, the needy, to touch in their flesh the flesh of Jesus. Be close, please -- Pope Francis
It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one. -- Robert Reich
I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling. -- Richard Gere
God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them. -- Mike Bickle
I'm independent. If a guy is too clingy or needy, I actually get afraid of hurting him - and I can't deal with that. -- Ashley Greene
When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross. -- Marina and the Diamonds
Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism. -- Dee Dee Myers
If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them. -- Beth Moore
America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy. -- Thomas Peterffy
The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done. -- Bill Gates
The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy citizens what we can certainly afford to help through real charity. -- Grover Norquist
My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs. -- Chris Kattan
I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick. -- Cate Blanchett
We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad? -- Thomas Pogge
[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment. -- George Washington
There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration. -- Fanny Fern
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy -- John Piper
Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action. -- Mitt Romney
Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel. -- John Wycliffe
We should all remember... that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the poor, the hungry! I encourage everyone to reflect on the problem of thrown away and wasted food to identify ways and means that, by seriously addressing this issue, are a vehicle of solidarity and sharing with the needy. -- Pope Francis
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler. -- Claire Tomalin
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary. -- Jules Feiffer
My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness. -- Eve Ensler
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it. -- Stephen Colbert
It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer.... Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity. -- St. Vincent
We're a fast-moving, needy species. -- Theophilus London
An Idle youth, a needy Age. -- George Herbert
He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. -- Publilius Syrus
We're only as needy as our unmet needs. -- John Bowlby
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man -- Hesiod
When you meet the needy your heart grows bigger -- Pope Francis
Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy -- Ronald Reagan
One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people. -- Publilius Syrus
Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers. -- Jay Bell
touchKindness never use harsh words its touch warmth the needy person. -- Kishore Bansal
Kindness never use harsh words its touch warmth the needy person. -- Kishore Bansal
As long as you tithe you cannot be greedy or needy. -- Mark Victor Hansen
When you said no time for love,I heard needy expression of love. -- Toba Beta
Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity. -- Dean M. Davies
There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people. -- John Gordon Sinclair
Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy. -- Judith M Bardwick
Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy. -- Bryant McGill
[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble. -- Malvina Hoffman
To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness. -- Gautama Buddha
God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy. -- Lester Roloff
The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
Donate to the extent that even if you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy -- Sivaji Ganesan
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse. -- St. Jerome
There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children. -- Debby Boone
To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is. -- Frank A. Clark
Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well. -- Dillon Burroughs
I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because Iâ??m both needy and unavailable. -- Lena Dunham
The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy. -- David Platt
Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless. -- Epictetus
I can't do negative, needy, or narcissistic anymore. Oh wait, I can still do the last one, aw nuts. -- Bob Saget
We who are Christians, members of God's family, are called to go out to the needy and to serve them. -- Pope Francis
There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me! -- Douglas Wood
The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy. -- Max Anders
Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy. -- H.W. Charles
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. -- Dean Koontz
Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
It's so funny you judge me arrogant after I succeeded.You didn't help me at all when I was so poor and needy. -- Toba Beta
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home. -- Cheryl Strayed
Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses. -- Rainbow Rowell
In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students. -- Hilda Solis
What I would do to change this planet is have everyone meditate and look inside. Then we'd have a happier, more service-oriented, less-needy world. -- Russell Simmons
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks. -- Mary Lou Retton
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth. -- Hesiod
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So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other. -- Carol Shields
The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy. -- Omar Khayyam
I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown. -- Marc Maron
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man? -- Karl Marx
It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk? -- Gary Smalley
Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul. -- Saint John Chrysostom
You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. -- Katee Sackhoff
Life has been dark but full of light; sad, but full of joy; disappointing, but full of hope; needy but full of plenty, sick but full of health. -- Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
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I believe this; "When you have a needy person in your neighbourhood, it's an opportunity for you to become a wealthy and healthy person!" Giving time is blessing time! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I believe this; When you have a needy person in your neighbourhood, it's an opportunity for you to become a wealthy and healthy person! Giving time is blessing time! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims. -- Hans F. Sennholz
In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be. -- Jean Baker Miller
We fight for money ,we fight for power but after death nothings will be with youonly thing will be with you is your selfless work for needy and poor -- tikeswar bariha
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery. -- Saint Basil
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. -- Samuel Johnson
May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy. -- Guru Nanak
The next kiss deepened, became more urgent, needy. There was no space between them, and she could feel he enjoyed their closeness. Riley heard him moan and they reluctantly broke apart. -- Jana Oliver
When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked into gear. The yes grew louder than the no. -- Caroline Knapp
He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living. -- Tullian Tchividjian
One of the best things that can happen to any cause, to any people, is to have Bill Clinton as its advocate. That is how needy and neglected causes have become global initiatives. -- Mitt Romney
Beware of fame; for when they come for you, they come not to give, but for to gain.Whoever is needed, wields the most power.Whoever is needy, seeks to wield that power. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself. -- Marianne Williamson
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They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile. -- George Eliot
I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow. -- Martha Plimpton
Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked. -- Jess Weixler
The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy. -- Alexander Theroux

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