Needs

Examples

• Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This statement needs to be rendered more specific by connecting it with the materials of school instruction, the studies which make up the curriculum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Does he really think he needs me, and can take an interest in me as a sister? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• For unions and trusts, sects, clubs and voluntary associations stand for actual needs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A man of plain habits, he had sent his servants to bed and must needs go down to open the door. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I foresee trouble for that girl--perhaps want of motherly care--and I only wish you to be ready to be a friend to her, in case she needs one. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• When a new business grows at that rate, of course, it soon needs power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Real life is beyond his control and influence because real life is largely agitated by impulses and habits, unconscious needs, faith, hope and desire. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Surely the plain inference that follows needs no pointing out? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• True, I have a daughter, but it needs a man to manage my Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• This preparation needs to be applied only once or twice. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It was enough, however, for his needs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The successful politician--good or bad--deals with the dynamics--with the will, the hopes, the needs and the visions of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Doing proceeds from needs and aims at change. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If they come in at all, it is as a concession to the material needs of the masses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A bad case, murmured the Rector, shaking his gray head; a very bad case, which needs curing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• What her thoughts were I did not know, for as yet I had learned but little of the Martian tongue; enough only to suffice for my daily needs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I fear, I know, that the couch needs spiritual as well as medical consolation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He needs to be made conscious of consequences as a justification of the positive or negative value of certain objects. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But I know this is a place where even a man of business needs his wits about him; and if mine can be of any use to you here, you're welcome to them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The time was not yet quite ripe for the road, but the needs of trade were growing more and more pressing. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It needs not to be told;--every day is telling it,--telling it, too, in the ear of One who is not deaf, though he be long silent. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I mean to know him some day, for he needs fun, I'm sure he does, said Jo decidedly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• As for YOUR way of looking at it, William Brangwen, it needs a little explaining. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The scorn of the public should be turned upon the emptiness of political thought, upon the fact that those men seem without even a conception of the nation's needs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He needs someone to look after him when Frank is not with him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It needs not--send Louis Winkelbrand and a score of thy lances. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Edited by Davy