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Needs Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
- If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our…
- You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to…
- We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as…
- The truth needs so little rehearsal.
- My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of…
- You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend,…
- Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo,…
- God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
- What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we…
- Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,…
- Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit…
- He needs to go rub his soul against life.
- Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't…
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