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Change needs practice. And practice needs patience.

The Russians need to understand that you cannot have peace [in Syria] unless you resolve the question of Sunni buy-in.

There is some schedule showing what you (need) to do to get Iraqis standing up and defending themselves which is now suddenly beginning to happen, so there are some signs of progress.

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

We need a new approach to national security - a bold, progressive internationalism that stands in stark contrast to the too often belligerent and myopic unilateralism of the Bush Administration.

What we Americans need to do is respect that incredible blessing that we have as a nation and make sure that we are leading in the best ways possible.

I can evade questions without help; what I need is answers

It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our senior population - especially the oldest and sickest.

We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.

There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.

The formless cannot be based on the form. The form needs to be based on the formless.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

The more that you need a relationship, the less you are able to be in a relationship. The more that something on the surface can answer you, the less that you will be really answered when you're in it.

Love doesn't need to be answered, It just quietly and freely gives.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren't really free. They're just a protectionist racket, and we have to pay for it all on every level. It's really quite extraordinary, and immoral, and illegal. These things need to be named, and shamed, and outed, and mocked, and prosecuted.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.