Needs Quotes - Page 474

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.

Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I had violently returned. This people had no need of directives to affirm its French pride in the face of the whole world

I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.

Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as you see fit. It's amazing that I feel the need to say this, but, given our times, I do.

I swear by the invigorating shampoo and conditioner by Como Shambhala. When you’re in need for a quick mental vacation, it does the trick

I belong to a generation that had so many choices available. In 1970, when [former premier Robert] Bourassa launched the James Bay development project, nobody in Quebec asked whether we had the means to do it. Today could we launch another James Bay? Imagine the debates we'd have? We were a young, rich society with almost no debt. The generation that comes after us, and which will lead Quebec, must also have choices. And for that, they'll need financial manoeuvring room.

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Donald Trump has been very clear that he's committed to NATO. But he's also been very clear - and I think in a right and proper way - that our allies need to step up to the plate with their investment spending, et cetera. And I think the allies have gotten that message.

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short, he has learnt his trade - that he should bother with literature at all. Poetry is not like surgery, a technique that can be copied. Every operation the poet performs is unique, and need never be done again.

We need to put limits on how much an individual, group or business can spend on influencing an individual legislator or a whole set of legislators. Look at the vast sums that the NRA spends on getting all legislators to be soft on gun control. Legislators find it hard to refuse the NRA's largess when they need contributions to their political campaign wherever they can get them.