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"Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him."
"Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes."
"Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected."
"The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself"
"Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil."
"O, reason not the need!"
"You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?"
"Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need."
"He that is thy friend indeed, he will help you in your need."
"That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel."
"A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military"
"If you're making abortion illegal and undermining the various things that will allow the prevention of that need, it can only be a situation that goes from bad to worse."
"If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has."
"Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for a driver."
"But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking."
"Some people don't feel like they need to give anything back because it's like, "Oh, if you're famous, you can just keep giving, and it doesn't matter." It's not just about money. It's not just about giving people gifts or whatever."
"There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and it needs to climax and finish."
"We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream."
"In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness."
"He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan."
