"No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel."
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"Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation."
"If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee."
"It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again."
"... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!"
"Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love."
"I buy everything from CostCo. It's great; they've got everything I need."
"I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you."
"You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful."
"Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts."
"Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter."
"We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs."
"I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives."
"A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices."
"The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'"
"Dig deep and believe in yourself and have the self-confidence you need to forge ahead."
"The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion."
"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."
"No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it."
"It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis."