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"The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent."
"I need to keep working on myself for a while."
"Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions."
"Love needs no protection; it is its own protection."
"With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power."
"I don't need a tank top to be a wife beater"
"I love painting and have a need to do it."
"I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own."
"I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel. To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?"
"I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided."
"We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men."
"Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening."
"If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician."
"The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education."
"We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance"
"You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight."
"I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it."
"The more you feel like you need to fix something, the more you need to not."
"There is not a need to prove anything to anyone with your words. Let that which you are - that which you are living - be your clear example to uplift others."
"install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time."
