„You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.“

„[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right“

—  Harper Lee, kniha Go Set a Watchman

Zdroj: Go Set a Watchman

„If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.“

—  Robert LeFevre American libertarian businessman 1911 - 1986

As quoted in Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer, L.K. Samuels, editor, Freeland Press and Rampart Institute, Santa Ana: CA, Chap. 5, p. 70

„Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.“

—  Patricia Briggs, kniha Frost Burned

Zdroj: Frost Burned

„Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.“

—  Warren Ellis English comics and fiction writer 1968

Zdroj: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

„At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important — I don’t believe that sustains you.“

—  Bruce Springsteen American singer and songwriter 1949

„You don’t need to impress anyone except you.“

—  Prito Reza Photographer 1984

„Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can’t have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don’t rate it.“

—  Robert A. Heinlein American science fiction author 1907 - 1988

Zdroj: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5

„For a game, you don’t need a teacher.“

—  Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959

“Game III,” p. 98
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”

„You know, you don’t really need me. All you need to do is read your own books.“

—  P. L. Travers Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist 1899 - 1996

The Paris Review interview (1982)
Kontext: I’ve always been interested in the Mother Goddess. Not long ago, a young person, whom I don’t know very well, sent a message to a mutual friend that said: “I’m an addict of Mary Poppins, and I want you to ask P. L. Travers if Mary Poppins is not really the Mother Goddess.” So, I sent back a message: “Well, I’ve only recently come to see that. She is either the Mother Goddess or one of her creatures — that is, if we’re going to look for mythological or fairy-tale origins of Mary Poppins.”
I’ve spent years thinking about it because the questions I’ve been asked, very perceptive questions by readers, have led me to examine what I wrote. The book was entirely spontaneous and not invented, not thought out. I never said, “Well, I’ll write a story about Mother Goddess and call it Mary Poppins.” It didn’t happen like that. I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
Once, when I was in the United States, I went to see a psychologist. It was during the war when I was feeling very cut off. I thought, Well, these people in psychology always want to see the kinds of things you’ve done, so I took as many of my books as were then written. I went and met the man, and he gave me another appointment. And at the next appointment the books were handed back to me with the words: “You know, you don’t really need me. All you need to do is read your own books.”
That was so interesting to me. I began to see, thinking about it, that people who write spontaneously as I do, not with invention, never really read their own books to learn from them. And I set myself to reading them. Every now and then I found myself saying, “But this is true. How did she know?” And then I realized that she is me. Now I can say much more about Mary Poppins because what was known to me in my blood and instincts has now come up to the surface in my head.

„Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.“

—  Kim Gruenenfelder American writer 1967

Zdroj: A Total Waste of Makeup

„You already have one asshole, you don't need another one“

—  Greg Behrendt American comedian 1963

Zdroj: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

„Don’t come before the orchestra is you have not mastered the score; don’t practise or learn the score ‘on the orchestra“

—  Pierre Monteux French conductor 1875 - 1964

„I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.“

—  Holly Black, kniha Red Glove

Zdroj: Red Glove

„But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven

Zdroj: Pigs in Heaven

„Hey Kaname. Will you let me handle this?

Of course. I need only one Ichijo. You.“

—  Matsuri Hino Japanese manga artist

Zdroj: Vampire Knight, Vol. 9

„You know that answer to that, don’t you. You don’t need me to tell you.“

—  Hyman George Rickover United States admiral 1900 - 1986

„To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.“

—  Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926

„A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.“

—  Matt Haig British writer 1975

Zdroj: The Humans

„It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.“

—  Ursula K. Le Guin American writer 1929 - 2018

“The Bones of the Earth” (p. 138)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)