c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
New Rule: America must stop bragging it's the greatest country on earth, and start acting like it. I know this is uncomfortable for the "faith over facts" crowd, but the greatness of a country can, to a large degree, be measured. Here are some numbers. Infant mortality rate: America ranks forty-eighth in the world. Overall health: seventy-second. Freedom of the press: forty-fourth. Literacy: fifty-fifth. Do you realize there are twelve-year old kids in this country who can't spell the name of the teacher they're having sex with?America has done many great things. Making the New World democratic. The Marshall Plan. Curing polio. Beating Hitler. The deep-fried Twinkie. But what have we done for us lately? We're not the freest country. That would be Holland, where you can smoke hash in church and Janet Jackson's nipple is on their flag.And sadly, we're no longer a country that can get things done. Not big things. Like building a tunnel under Boston, or running a war with competence. We had six years to fix the voting machines; couldn't get that done. The FBI is just now getting e-mail.Prop 87 out here in California is about lessening our dependence on oil by using alternative fuels, and Bill Clinton comes on at the end of the ad and says, "If Brazil can do it, America can, too!" Since when did America have to buck itself up by saying we could catch up to Brazil? We invented the airplane and the lightbulb, they invented the bikini wax, and now they're ahead?In most of the industrialized world, nearly everyone has health care and hardly anyone doubts evolution--and yes, having to live amid so many superstitious dimwits is also something that affects quality of life. It's why America isn't gonna be the country that gets the inevitable patents in stem cell cures, because Jesus thinks it's too close to cloning.Oh, and did I mention we owe China a trillion dollars? We owe everybody money. America is a debtor nation to Mexico. We're not a bridge to the twenty-first century, we're on a bus to Atlantic City with a roll of quarters. And this is why it bugs me that so many people talk like it's 1955 and we're still number one in everything.We're not, and I take no glee in saying that, because I love my country, and I wish we were, but when you're number fifty-five in this category, and ninety-two in that one, you look a little silly waving the big foam "number one" finger. As long as we believe being "the greatest country in the world" is a birthright, we'll keep coasting on the achievements of earlier generations, and we'll keep losing the moral high ground.Because we may not be the biggest, or the healthiest, or the best educated, but we always did have one thing no other place did: We knew soccer was bullshit. And also we had the Bill of Rights. A great nation doesn't torture people or make them disappear without a trial. Bush keeps saying the terrorist "hate us for our freedom,"" and he's working damn hard to see that pretty soon that won't be a problem.
— Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
...the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
— Theodore Roosevelt
If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious, but we pass quickly over their shortcomings or their defeats. Our people are represented as patriotic heroes, their enemies as grasping imperialists, or subversive rebels. In other words, our national histories are propaganda, not well balanced investigation.
— John Bagot Glubb, The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.
— Charlie Chaplin
The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.
— Tit Elingtin, Eminent Domain
Losing your parent at a tender age is like losing everything thing. The love, care, support and what have you. It only takes determination, strong will and the love, care and support from others to make a difference in the lives of these ones as they grow to face their future. You and I can impact in their lives...Just a little love, a little care, a little support can make a huge difference in a child's life. Support an orphan today!
— Oziohu Sanni
Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
The time has come for nations to sell their patriotism and buy wisdom.
— M.F. Moonzajer
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
— Thomas Jefferson
Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.
— Barack Obama
...we have seen that the priests regard the state as an enemy to be exploited, it is only natural that our politicians do likewise. Thus, although patriotism is held in greater esteem in this country than in any other country in the world, there is no other country in the world where patriotism is less in evidence among politicians and among the general mass of the community. For patriotism and the state are so closely allied that love of one is necessarily love of the other. And if any man considers the state an enemy and an institution to be exploited, it follows naturally that he is no patriot. Thus the amazed tourist will see that it is very fashionable for Irish politicians who are not in the government to denounce the government and then when they get into the government it is equally fashionable for them to use the powers of government for the purpose of robbing the country. 
— Liam O'Flaherty, A Tourist's Guide to Ireland
The recognition of a distinct 'national identity' among members of the Body of Christ can keep before us our ties with Christians who live under different secular governments, with whom we have bonds that transcend and override our commitments to governments and groups outside the church.
— Richard J. Mouw, Political Evangelism
How I define patriotism, a knife, a riffle and some hand-gernades.
— Billy S. VanOrsdol
Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?
— Itō Hirobumi
Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved. By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.
— George Orwell
I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn't have to hide it behind brown pants, and that the know-not-enoughs were laughed all the way to the Maine border on their first New Hampshire meet and greet. I wish that in order to secure his party's nomination, a presidential candidate would be required to point at the sky and name all the stars; have the periodic table of the elements memorized; rattle off the kings and queens of Spain; define the significance of the Gatling gun; joke around in Latin; interpret the symbolism in seventeenth-century Dutch painting; explain photosynthesis to a six-year-old; recite Emily Dickinson; bake a perfect popover; build a shortwave radio out of a coconut; and know all the words to Hoagy Carmichael's "Two Sleepy People," Johnny Cash's "Five Feet High and Rising," and "You Got the Silver" by the Rolling Stones. After all, the United States is the greatest country on earth dealing with the most complicated problems in the history of the world--poverty, pollution, justice, Jerusalem. What we need is a president who is at least twelve kinds of nerd, a nerd messiah to come along every four years, acquire the Secret Service code name Poindexter, install a Revenge of the Nerds screen saver on the Oval Office computer, and one by one decrypt our woes.
— Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
— Edith Cavell
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
— George Washington
America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only because we value democracy and the rights of the individual, but because we are always our own most effective voice of descent....We must never mistake disagreement between Americans on political or moral issues to be an indication of their level of patriotism. If you don't like what I say or don't agree with where I stand on certain issues, then good. I'm glad we're in America, and don't have to oppress each other over it. We're not just a nation, we're not an ethnicity. We are a dream of justice that people have had for a thousand years.
— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition.
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
If you're ashamed to stand by your colours, you better seek for another flag.
— Mokhtar Dahari
Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!
— Yukio Mishima
Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.
— Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
— George Bernard Shaw
I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles. To this day it gives me a faint feeling of sacrilege not to stand to attention during ‘God save the King’. That is childish, of course, but I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so ‘enlightened’ that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions.
— George Orwell
Patriotism is racism for the modern era.
— Michelle Templet
From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of our history to do battle and win over all the enemies of our Fatherland, his battle and victory having to extend even beyond the material world into the realm of invisible enemies, the powers of evil. Everything that our mind can imagine as more beautiful spiritually; everything the proudest that our race can produce, greater, more just, more powerful, wiser, purer, more diligent and more heroic, this is what the Legionary school must give us! A man in whom all the possibilities of human grandeur that are implanted by God in the blood of our people be developed to the maximum. This hero, the product of Legionary education, will also know how to elaborate programs; will also know how to solve the Jewish problem; will also know how to organize the state well; will also know how to convince other Romanians; and if not, he will know how to win, for that is why he is a hero. This hero, this Legionary of bravery, labour, and justice, with the powers God implanted in his soul, will lead our Fatherland on the road of its glory.
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, For My Legionaries
It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box
— George Orwell
I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.
— Johann Hari
People who make use of all their senses in trying times are no less patriotic than those whose restraint is lost, whose senses are dimmed and whose brains are washed. This is also the time for the patriot to say: Enough.
— Gideon Levy, The Punishment of Gaza
What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.
— Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
Avarice is patriotic!
— William Donaldson
So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around.
— James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan
I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
You need something," he said, and when I stared at him, he added, "Your face.""My face?""It's in need of my kisses.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, White Hot Kiss
It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself
— Carrie Jones, Need
The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much.
— Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword
I need you.” He could not go any further down. Rock bottom. And at the very bottom was just this one thing. The core of it all. “Fucking... love you... too much.
— Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Soldiers
We teleported," Issie finishes. "Like in Star Trek or Harry Potter, sort of. No! Like in Dr. Who in that episode with the Sontarans and the brilliant human boy, or really any Dr. Who ever if you think of the Tardis! Holy canola! That is just the coolest thing ever! Wowie, wow, wow!
— Carrie Jones, Endure
I am beginning to remember what it means to need things. Laughter. Companionship. Love. "He leant forward and pressed his forehead to mine. "And I need you, Merit.
— Chloe Neill, Twice Bitten
This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
— Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.
— Clint Eastwood
When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the world within a world, the internet. The things outside of the web were becoming further from me, and everything inside it seemed piercingly relevant. The blogs of strangers had to be read daily, and people nearby who had no web presence were becoming almost cartoonlike, as if they were missing a dimension. It was just happening, like time, like geography. The web seemed so inherently endless that it didn't occur to me what wasn't there. My appetite for pictures and videos and news and music was so gigantic now that if something was shrinking, something immesurable, how would I notice?...Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine loosing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time.
— Miranda July, It Chooses You
Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
— David Gemmell, Legend
I will always need you," I whisper. "All of this time I've waited for you. And you were never coming for me. Why did you let me wait for you?
— Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth
That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.
— Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.
— Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
You have to really want and need it before you earn it.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
There is/no reasoning with need.
— Claudia Rankine, The End of the Alphabet: Poems
When you said no time for love,I heard needy expression of love.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
You're good salesman, if you make people buyproduct they don't need.
— Toba Beta
And I need you, my love," he said. "I need you so much that I panic when I think that perhaps I will not be able to persuade you to come back with me to Enfield. I need you so much that I cannot quite contemplate the rest of my life if it must be lived without you. I need you so much that—Well, the words speak for themselves. I need you.""To look after Augusta?" she said. She dared not hear what he was surely saying. She dared not hope. "To look after Enfield? To provide you with an heir?""Yes," he said, and her heart sank like a stone to be squashed somewhere between her slippers and the parlor carpet."And to be my friend and my confidant and my comfort. And to be my lover.
— Mary Balogh, The Temporary Wife
Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, and what we need to get to get what we need.
— Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.
— Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman
Like hot foodI love youlike warmbread & coldcuts, buttersammichesor, days later, afterThanksgivingwhen I wantwhatever's left
— Kevin Young
It's been so long since I've been okay, I don't know what it feels like anymore.
— Joelle Charbonneau, Need
The need is necessary.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A look of interest, or perhaps doubt, came across his face. "Well," he said, "I'm sure your bulimia was fulfilling some need.
— Kathryn Hansen, Brain over Binge: Why I Was Bulimic, Why Conventional Therapy Didn't Work, and How I Recovered for Good
What we need, we have.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All I need is you even though I don't know if I can have you.
— Fatma Alfalasi
No. He won't save my brother. He doesn't love me no matter what he believes. He loves that I need him. But I don't. Not really. Because despite what I thought, what I counted on, he has never been there for me. There is no safety with him. I've always been alone. I just didn't know how isolated I was until now.
— Joelle Charbonneau, Need
A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.
— Marty Rubin
You don't need notes... you either do it ... or you either you don't do it.
— Deyth Banger
Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work. The outcome is hardly surprising: a project that should never have been built was built, and built badly.
— Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist
The need is what is necessary.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes you need to lose everything to find what is valuable.
— Jeffrey Fry
You do not need to proof your significance
— Sunday Adelaja
We need to be ready all the time for attacks of the enemy
— Sunday Adelaja
We need time so to can explain the stuff in easy way.
— Deyth Banger, 4 Hours
You need to know the truth to be able to praise God
— Sunday Adelaja
Use your money to meet the need of your neighbor
— Sunday Adelaja
Work hard for what you need in life and door of prosperity will open for you
— Sunday Adelaja
We need to resist all the attacks of the enemy and not get caught in his provocations
— Sunday Adelaja
To be God’s heartbeat is to be an answer to his need
— Sunday Adelaja
In order to be a deliverer you need to make a decision to be baptized into the nation
— Sunday Adelaja
The absence of God’s answer is a clear answer
—  it speaks of the need to get closer to God
We need to broaden the horizon of our faith, putting more difficult tasks in front of us each time
— Sunday Adelaja
I have everything I could ever want here, Adelina,” he finally says. “You’ve handed me what feels like the world’s riches, a palace, a life of luxury.” He draws closer. “I get to be at your side. What more do I need?
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
All you need to know, boy," Finan growled, "is that Lord Uhtred's side is the one that wins.
— Bernard Cornwell, The Flame Bearer
Having riches ultimately means having few needs.
— J.R. Rim
We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give it.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and 
— Susan Sarandon
The people who seem to need love the least are the ones who usually need it the most.
— Kate McGahan
Here is a nice tip, safe the shit which now you are saying for later one day you will need it.
— Deyth Banger
Show that you care and share with those who are in need.
— Gugu Mona
Hard tasks need hard ways.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.
— Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.
— Brandon Sanderson, Perfect State
Do you need me?” she said. She could scout as well as Roar and Brooke, who had already disappeared into the darkness. Perry looked up. His hair was tied back with a leather strip, but a piece fell forward, a blond wave coming to rest at his eyebrow. “You want the truth?” Aria braced herself for a comment about her arm. “Always.” “That’s my answer.
— Veronica Rossi, Into the Still Blue
When you do what you love, there is nothing you need to worry about. Everything comes easily.
— Mabel Katz, The Easiest Way to Grow (Book+CD) - El Camino Mas Facil Para Crecer
In times of need, you will know the souls who love you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is never a need to justify anything to others, only yourself.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
He was my best friend and I needed him.
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Those who want to get wet need no umbrella!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I need you, Fern. I'm not going to lie. I need you. But I don't need you the same way Bailey did. I need you because it hurts when we're apart. I need you because you make me hopeful. You make me happy.
— Amy Harmon, Making Faces
We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit
— Sunday Adelaja
We need money not only for meeting our own needs, but also for fulfilling God’s plans.
— Sunday Adelaja
You need to get all the information that is related to the work that the Lord has called you to do.
— Sunday Adelaja
If you want to get impressive increase, you need to get off the bed, lay demand and exert enough pressure as much as necessary to get the kind of increase we need
— Sunday Adelaja
Even God has a need
— Sunday Adelaja
God needs to bless the works of our hands, but you still need to do some work for God to bless it
— Sunday Adelaja
Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.
— Alfred Hitchcock
Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.
— Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together.
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
I feel like I’m going to get in a fight one day about the validity of falling in love so fast. Not a heated one because why would I give a shit if some other person gets it or not? Right now, it’s no longer the big flooding rush like when I saw her naked shoulder. It’s just this honest, frank truth. I love Evelyn Shriner. Love doesn’t start with need. Love meets love and just fucking recognizes itself. I’m supposed to be scared to death. Modern man isn’t built for these kinds of things. But I feel good.
— Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People
Immature loves says ' I love because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you.
— Erich Fromm
Be a man and breathe life back into the woman in me.
— H.A. Kotys, Is This Me
Her heart ached to be nearer him – to know that he would stay with her no matter what. She couldn’t imagine how she’d feel if he left – he’d become so necessary to her.
— Emily Arden, Lie to me: Deception: Book Two
I'm sorry, Cullen. I really am. I know this sucks. But you're better off anyway. And you'll be fine. You needed me. Now someone else needs me.
— John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back
An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)
— Michael Pryor, Moment of Truth
And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn’t see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in a row for me. I really need you. You’re a part of me; I’m a part of you.
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Let my love show you the way and give you guidance in the moment of need.
— Debasish Mridha
God can answer every need.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We have many needs in life,but the one thing we really need is to be needed by the one we need the most.
— Various
I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.
— Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Want? Yes, she whispered, her eyes sliding closed. Yes I want to keep you more than I want to breathe.
— Skye Jordan, Reckless
What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.
— Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger
How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need.
— Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
— German Proverb
Is not it interesting that you had everything you needed in the first nine months, why is not that true for the next ninety years, because we interfere.
— Wayne W. Dyer, The Shift: Taking Your Life from Ambition to Meaning
Change must Needed.
— Savan Solanki
Having her in my arms feels like coming home. I am not one to believe in all that love at first sight bullshit, but even as cynical as I am, I can recognize something bigger than lust at work. My body wants her; that is no secret, but the level of want is borderline craving. I need her. Needing someone is not something I am used to. No, I am used to being needed… something this woman clearly doesn’t want.
— Harper Sloan, Cage
There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.
— Richard Siken, Crush
She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.
— John Dufresne, Love Warps the Mind a Little
After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’s facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
I'm amazed how my soul is served the messages I need to be fed at exactly the time I'm in need. When I'm open.
— Paula Heller Garland
Sometimes, all you want is a warm loving embrace.. and no words..
— Himmilicious, The Knot : A Relationship beyond marriage.
I need to breathe” I manage to get out, his hold on me loosens slightly.“I need you
— R.S. Burnett, Bet Me
I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again
— John Geddes
No one has ever needed me before because I’ve never let anyone that far in.
— Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to protect her.
— Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
Whiskey, glass, pour, toss back, glare. Repeat. “Cop out,” I slurred in retaliation, pointing the empty glass at Peter.“Don’t get drunk. Fuck. I need you sober,” he yelled, snatching the glass out of my hand.“There’s the problem right there. You need me sober. You need my help. You need something from me.” I laughed, tossing the bottle on the sofa, ignoring the glug glug glug as it emptied over my cushions. “And I just need you.”“Need me to what?” He asked with a huff, tipping the bottle right-side up.“Nothing. I just need you,” I whispered and flopped into a nearby recliner.
— Dani Alexander, Shattered Glass
How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?
— K.P. Yohannan, No Longer a Slumdog: Bringing Hope to Children in Crisis
How often ... do we pass by a need, a life that could be changed with the smallest bit of effort? And it's not that we don't care but that we're driving so fast, all we see are the fence posts flashing by on the side of the highway?Maybe the first step in changing the world is in slowing down and looking through the fences.
— Lisa Wingate, Firefly Island
Your needs are overwhelming? You can’t depend on yourself or others to meet them? You don’t even know what they are? Then need nothing.
— Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want
When you feel deep change in your heart, you must understand that there is a lack of an old and righteous company.
— Moazzam Shaikh
Pregnancy had seemed a reasonable excuse for letting her metal-smithing tools languish, but that accounted for only eighteen months of the last twenty-six years. Motherhood wasn't the real problem, though it took him a long time to figure out what was. She needed resistance, the very quality that metal most demonstrably offered up. Suddenly Glynis had no difficulty to overcome, no hard artisan's life with galleries filching half the too-small price of a mokume brooch that had taken three weeks to forge. No, her husband made a good living, and if she slept late and dawdled the afternoon away reading Lustre, American Craft Magazine and Lapidary Journal, the phone bill would still get paid. For that matter, she needed need itself. She could overcome her anguish about embarking on an object that, once completed, might not meet her exacting standards only if she had no choice. In this sense, his helping had hurt her. By providing the financial cushion that should have facilitated making all the metal whathaveyou she liked, he had ruined her life. Wrapped in a slackening bow, ease was a poisonous present.
— Lionel Shriver, So Much for That
I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
— Yann Martel
Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something.
— Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want
Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.
— Malidoma Patrice Somé, The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community
Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
He is my vulnerability
— Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
Love is not insatiable. What is insatiable is the need for love.
— Marty Rubin
I was naked and he had more possessions than he could use all at once. I was the proletarian, he was the capitalist, and my relations to him were reduced to the basic proposition of all revolutions: die, I want what you have. It was the first time in my life I'd taken an interest in politics.
— MacDonald Harris, Mortal Leap
I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don’t need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things—though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart—and at the ranch, I could see, we’d have pretty much everything we’d need but precious little else.
— Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
— C.S. Lewis
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
— Maya Angelou
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
— William Arthur Ward
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
— Eric Hoffer
Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises. 
— Janette Oke
Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
— Mother Teresa
May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.
— Heber J. Grant
When we . . . read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage.
— Howard W. Hunter
Money can't buy no blessins.
— Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different as Me
I was pirouette and flourish,I was filigree and flame.How could I count my blessingswhen I didn't know their names?
— Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
— Lydia Maria Francis Child
What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch--that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.
— Nancy E. Turner, Sarah's Quilt
To an unbelieving person nothing renders service or work for good. He himself is in servitude to all things, and all things turned out for evil to him, because he uses all things in impious way for his own advantage, and not for the glory of God.
— Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty
The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.
— Marty Rubin
Something of greater import, I think, is to say I’m blessed in infinitely many ways. But sometimes I just don’t see it.
— Boniface Sagini, Thrills and Chills: Trudging Through Life
We all go through hard times in life. It’s a part of being human and it's the reality we all have to deal with. There are times we forget how valuable we are and our purpose for the life we have been given. We must take joy every day in celebrating our blessings, so it’s something we can carry in our hearts during our life’s journey.
— Jesus Apolinaris
The bigger your problems, the bigger the blessings God is about to pour out upon you
— Sunday Adelaja
We should love God and not His blessings
— Sunday Adelaja
Obedience is always followed by blessings
— Sunday Adelaja
Remember to give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way
— Valentina Giambanco, Blood and Bone
...she found herself blessing God for her creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all for His inestimable Love; out loud; in a burst of acknowledgement.
— Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April
New birth, new blessings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have to do something first and let God bless
— Sunday Adelaja
The first step to receiving more blessings is appreciating the ones you have.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
For LongingBlessed be the longing that brought you hereAnd quickens your soul with wonder.May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desireThat disturbs you when you have settled for something safe.May you have the wisdom to enter generously into your own uneaseTo discover the new direction your longing wants you to take.May the forms of your belonging—in love, creativity, and friendship—Be equal to the grandeur and the call of your soul.May the one you long for long for you.May your dreams gradually reveal the destination of your desire.May a secret Providence guide your thought and nurture your feeling.May your mind inhabit life with the sureness with which your body inhabits the world.May your heart never be haunted by ghost-structures of old damage.May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency.May you know the urgency with which God longs for you.
— John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
When Manya read, there was no waking her from her absorption; she heard nothing. A whole household might plan to tease and make a noise like all the zoos let loose with tin cans to play with and yet Manya wouldn't hear till her book was done. That was concentration and it was a joyful gift to have seized from the lucky-bag of life.
— Eleanor Doorly, The Radium Woman
I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
The blessings of God will complicate your life, but unlike sin, they will complicate your life in the way it should be complicated.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
I guess when your stars alignYou do like the solar system and plan it out
— Big Sean
Blessings are not about money or material things only as the modern world makes it. We can do simply things that can change people's life. For example:1. To listen to those who need to be heard(bleating cry).2. To speak kind words to the vulnerable ones.3. To show and give care to those who are in need.4. To pray for others or on behalf of the others.
— Euginia Herlihy
That rotten houseboat turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
— Joanna Gaines, The Magnolia Story
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
As you meet the needs of others, you will never lack anything.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Why don't we have more babies, Mom? Bailey has big sisters. I wish I had a big sister.“I don't know why, Fern. I tried to have more children, but sometimes we are given something so special, so wonderful, that one is enough.
— Amy Harmon, Making Faces
Your blessings are not ahead of you,they're behind you but you pull them toward you as you walk in His will Step by step day by day, they come.everything you need will comeJust Trust and obey.... and the blessings will chase you down and overtake you.
— Myles Munroe
The Beatitudes correspond to the Decalogue, with blessings in lieu of the forbidden.
— James Mikołajczyk, Jesus the Jew, Christ the King: Exploring the Hypostatic Union Between the Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith
We cry to God for blessings but we do not really want him. He has to teach us that he is the greatest blessing of all.
— John J. Murray, Behind A Frowning Providence
Enjoy every blessing you can get from ever setback and quickly move on. Don't dwell too much on a setback. Don't miss out other blessings ahead...
— Assegid Habtewold
Don't assume that God will bless you with what you desire just because He knows your thoughts.You must ask for these blessings and act.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
Stop complaining about your life, the food you eat or the clothes you wear,the grade you got or your newest phone.Instead look at what you have and be GRATEFUL. Compared to others on this earth, you are much more advantaged than them.Remember that what you have aren't afflictions but blessings from God. <3
— Liz Liaw
May the radiance of what you love, manifest in whatever you do.
— Shilpa Menon
May the radiance of what you love, reflect in whatever you do.
— Shilpa Menon
As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
BLESSINGS TO ALL~ Divine Love, flowing through US, blesses and multiplies all that WE are, all that WE have, all that WE give and all that WE receive
— Angie karan
God can bless you wherever you are.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God gives infinite riches.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She couldn’t help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how—even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,
— Tamera Alexander, To Win Her Favor
Open your heart
—  hear the blessings all around you singing songs of love.
Count your blessings, not your misfortunes, for your blessings will be the light of hope, in the dark of hopelessness.
— Kaitlin D.S. Cammie
Harder The will of God, Greater The blessing will be.
— tirumala
Worldly ease is a great foe to faith; it loosens the joints of holy valour, and snaps the sinews of sacred courage. The balloon never rises until the cords are cut; affliction doth this sharp service for believing souls.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor’s blessings become a Nigerian norm?
— Sunday Adelaja
All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Increase is God’s blessing to us all and at the same time it is his commandment that we should increase
— Sunday Adelaja
All the blessings God has prepared for us, His children, are received through our prayers
— Sunday Adelaja
They drew their net to shore, and there was a fire of coals, and fish laid thereon, another fish. When they had enough, one that was better than all was added. Have you not sometimes wished that you could have had that hundred and fifty-fourth fish? This was Christ's way all the while, and is His way still. He fills the net as full as it will hold, that our life may be sustained, and then He adds more, that His love may be gratified, and that which He adds is the "royal bounty.
— Alexander McKenzie
I can sit in denial of my life because in looking around I see how lucky I am to have survived it.
— K. Farrell St. Germain
Sometimes spiritual blessings are much more important than most material goals we pursue in life.
— Sunday Adelaja
God`s laws are God`s blessings to humanity.
— Sunday Adelaja
Blessings come into the areas of a person’s life, where he is absolutely obedient to God.
— Sunday Adelaja
Everyday has its unique blessings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Satisfaction: it's not something we find, it is something that happens while appreciating what we already have. - Keep your blessings in sight, front & center.
— Russell Kyle, Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life
God wants to bless His church by blessing His people.
— Sunday Adelaja
Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these other things shall be added to you
— Sunday Adelaja
Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all other things shall be added to you.
— Sunday Adelaja
The most important blessing to count is your heart beat.
— yel
Do you know the sums that I do?” “I count my blessings.
— Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder
PROVERBS 18, GOD'S GOODY BAG OF FAVOR. God wants us to find the hidden treasures. When a person "finds" anything, it is implied that the object found is already there but "hidden." In this case, it would be hidden by God, so God would have to be the one to help you find a wife. You don't just pick a wife because of the qualities that you like. A lot of people do have the same qualities. What you want is the person that God chose for you to marry. What you will find is that God has hidden them so you could find them. Your very act of obedience in finding the wife that He has hidden for you and that He has shown you so you could get her brings favor from God.
— Marion Victoria Green
Send silent blessings to those that oppose you, so they may also find peace within themselves—and the strength and perseverance to embark on their life path.
— Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos, Living in Light, Love & Truth: You Can Positively Change Your Life by Living in Light, Love, & Truth-Awareness + Reflection + Learning + Application
You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It is staggering how completely, fully and fairly life supports you if your negativity will allow the blessings to arrive.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are the reasonFor my blessingsAnd you will be the inspirationOf my enlightened being
— Vishwas Chavan, SoulBliss: a poetic tale of cosmic love
Song of praise: Be joyful and count your blessings.There are so many things to be thankful for; the gift of being alive, blessings of a new day to hope and dream, the gift of families, the gift of children, the gift of friends, gift of people who make you laugh and smiles, the gift of strangers who show you kindness,the gift of nature, gift of educators, gift of preachers and many more.
— Lailah Gifty Akita