When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

Some people say, "If you trust in God's unconditional love, why do you need to pray?" A better ending is "why wouldn't you want to?"

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.

I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.

We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.

As soon as effective listening takes place, the ear identifies what needs to be done and guides the techniques search for a solution

You need to know everything. You both need to be comfortable with sharing everything. If you can't you are NOT ready to get married.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

One of the most important things a real investor needs to say is this; “I want my money back and I also want to keep my investments.

My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

The gates of hell did not prevail before me. They will not prevail after me. The Kingdom, I pray will use me but it doesn't need me.

We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing.

Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries.

Sometimes we need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes, God has a better plan. God's ways are higher than ours.

Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

Anything you need, you tell him and he'll get it for you. If he offends you in any way, let me know and I'll kill him when I get up.

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

Your feelings are your signals of deep truths inside of you. They're the language of your soul, and they need you to listen to them.

Sometimes I flashback and say, 'Wow I'm still doing this. Wow, it's crazy.' And I'm very thankful, but I think my body needs a rest.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas.

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission — that's not bad politics, that's robbery.

Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.

I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963

I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

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