"If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late."
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"Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to."
"It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge."
"Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing."
"You need not expect to get your book right the first time."
"Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it."
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"To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering."
"The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me."
"There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs."
"The cookie maker needs someone to look out for him."
"Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here."
"Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?"
"Rache,” he said, trying to get into my line of sight. “What more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks)"
"A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation."
"The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families."
"Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying."
"I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is."
"You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on"
"Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education."