They Needed Quotes
103 quotes by 99 authors
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Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other…
— Ray Bradbury
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They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
— Ann Brashares
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That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child,…
— Orson Scott Card
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People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world…
— Jeannette Walls
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She had time to make room for him in her closet. The cat had time to get used to him. They had all the time…
— Jill Shalvis
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Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were,…
— Terry Pratchett
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No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but…
— Libba Bray
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How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.
— Steven Levenkron
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It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they…
— Tom Perrotta
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So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
— Charles Bukowski
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It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving…
— Galt Niederhoffer
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If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google and…
— Eli Pariser
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In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my…
— Nellie McKay
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My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more…
— Michael Jordan
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If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics…
— Jose Mujica
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I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical…
— John Cullum
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Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible…
— Scilla Elworthy
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Over the years, my husband and I have sent two dozen or more girls to college and helped them with whatever else they needed.
— Soledad O'Brien
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In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.
— Charles Duhigg
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