"I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it."
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"You dont need a love scene to show love."
"Everyone just needs to stop fighting and have a cookie."
"You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!"
"Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."
"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."
"Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected."
"If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most."
"Quick believers need broad shoulders."
"I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food."
"The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative."
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation ."
"We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity"
"Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence."
"Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the deeper we live this communion, the more our behavior will witness to the truth."
"They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself."
"An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred."
"I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families."
"Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is."
"Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience."