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Needs Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is…
- Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
- Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally…
- Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the…
- If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within,…
- What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one…
- I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong…
- We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
- If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not…
- The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without…
- I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.
- Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not…
- We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed
More Needs Quotes
- 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