Needed Quotes
3444 quotes by 2493 authors
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To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
— Leo Tolstoy
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The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less…
— Joanna Macy
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The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of…
— Francis Schaeffer
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Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really…
— Barbara Pym
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We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping…
— Terry Goodkind
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Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.
— Sarah Dessen
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I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.
— Leif Enger
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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
— S E Hinton
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she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to…
— Paulo Coelho
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I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I…
— Michael Chabon
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I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His…
— Katherine Dunn
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The band has decided to give him and his wife a much needed break from the road to start a life and have a proper…
— Gerard Way
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Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
— Nicholas Sparks
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They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to…
— Janet Fitch
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That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
— Charles Bukowski
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It looks as if I was thinking what you were thinking." "Actually, you weren't. I was really thinking I needed to ask you a question."…
— Jennifer Rardin
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...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.
— Anne Lamott
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At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could…
— Sylvia Plath
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He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
— Lois Lowry
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