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- As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is…
- Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
- Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms,…
- If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can…
- Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not…
- ..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of…
- The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded,…
- We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something…
- Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age…
- Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and…
- I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is…
- Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis:…
- We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less…
- So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never…
- The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.
- Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the…
- First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear…
- We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old…
- Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one…
- God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.…
- If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for…
- A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only…
- Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty…
- For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the…
- We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. — Desi Arnaz