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“I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.”

Needs Break Arms

Author:Bernie Mac

“We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.”

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Author:Fred Hampton

“Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had never expected it to happen again, this would be enough.Time sheltered their embrace, enfolding them within a summer scented capsule that felt endless and theirs alone. The fragrance of grass and sunlight and nearby water sweetened each breath. Theirs was the music of birds ans the lazy buzz of insects and the beating of two hearts. Yes, she thought, she didn't need more. This would be enough.”

Men Needs Heart Two Enough Happens Would Be Eye Felt Water Arms Safe Summer Bird Breaths Embrace Expected Endless Grass Necks Lazy Sunlight Her Eyes Insects Fragrance Enough Time Buzz Two Hearts

Author:Maggie Osborne

“Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal.”

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Author:William Crookes

“If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.”

Ifs Needs Space Wonder Arms Fingers Painter

Book:De Kooning: A Retrospective

Source: De Kooning: A Retrospective

“I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.”

Thinking Needs I Can Reason Arms Bears Tiny Collectors Teddy Hacked Teddy Bear

Author:Anjelica Huston

“You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.”

People Needs May Arms Substitutes Satisfying Superstitions

Book:Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

Source: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

“This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those who are deprived of the experience, the need freezes and, distorted, it can rent a life. All addiction has as its foundation skewed yearning for the same transcendence. For me, the spell of the material was broken by my brother’s death; after his suicide, all I wanted was the renewal of my connection to the intangible.”

“Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.”

Needs May Light Earth Lying Night Wish Arms Ill Charm Buried Limbs Good Night Bewitched

Author:Edmund Waller

“A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.”

“Terrorists are linked to money laundering, dirty money, drug dealing, arms trafficking. We have to ask ourselves, where do terrorists get their weapons from? Where do they get their communication technology from? Where do they get their financing from? These are some of the aspects where I think the entire international community needs to come together and put a complete stop to access to these three key aspects by the terrorists.”

“This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle and to fight for the common interest, to wield the power of brain and good right arm if need be for one's family, for the ordered community of life, for the state, for moral principles, humanity, and the common good.”

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Author:Joseph Alexander Leighton

“Because I want to have my arm in good shape, I need to have my legs in good shape. Without a leg, there is no arm.”

Want Needs Arms Shapes Legs

Author:Pedro Martinez

“Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.”

Needs Children States Strong Virtue Arms Cold Our Children Sturdy Strong Family

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'”

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Author:Quentin Crisp

“I believe in the science. When you think about GMOs, I spend a lot of time on them, and I understand them. But I understand that my telling people on faith may not carry the day. They need to see it, understand it, [and we need to] arm them with facts, educate them, and let them make their choices.”

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Author:Ellen J. Kullman

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

Needs Steps Arms Ten Nine

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.”

Needs Names Forget Arms Miracle Wide Never Forget

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)

“I work out every day just to keep in shape. I feel like I never want to get stuck in a position where when you need somebody with great arms, you call Anthony Mackie. That hasn't been the calling card for my career, and nor do I want it to be.”

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Author:Anthony Mackie

“In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them. As adults we want to believe things like sex abuse or drug use are not happening anymore, or happening less and less, but that's not the case and we need to acknowledge that. We can't make life prettier for youth, but we can arm them.”

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Author:Ellen Hopkins

“How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.”

“You can't just build a huge chest and arms. You need to work out your body evenly. Otherwise, A, you'll look weird, and B, it's not the best for your body.”

Needs Looks Body Huge Arms Work Out Your Body Chests

Author:Kellan Lutz

“The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.”

People Needs Animal Arms Goes On Standing Cameras

Author:David Attenborough

“We need this city to actually live up to its name-The City of Angels. We need to spread our wings. We need to show that we are more than red carpets, we are more than Hollywood, that we are a city ourselves of open arms. We are a city of generosity and compassion.”

Needs Shows Names Cities Compassion Arms Angel Red Hollywood Wings Spread Generosity Carpet Red Carpet Open Arms City Of Angels

Author:Maria Shriver

“A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.”

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Book:The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?

Source: The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?

“True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.”

Needs I Can God Wanted Beautiful Religion Jesus Belief Christ Arms Jesus Christ Bones Frozen Beef Chunks Axes Vertical Horizontal

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.”

Ifs Needs I Can Might Politics Streets Arms Weapons Sensitive Assault Assault Weapons

Author:Chuck Robb

“When men are just desserts - that is, when a man is an enhancement to the already complete and satisfying life of a woman who makes choices and takes action - you will be able to choose a partner without surrendering who you are. Most of all, when men are just desserts, you may choose to be in the arms of a man, but need never fear falling into his hands.”

Men Needs May Hands Able Action Choices Fall Arms Who You Are Partners Satisfying Dessert Never Fear Enhancement

Author:Sonia Friedman

“God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a saint. It is impossible for me to grow bigger, so I put up with myself as I am, with all my countless faults. But I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight, a little way that is quite new[...] It is your arms, Jesus, which are the lift to carry me to heaven, And so there is no need for me to grow up. In fact, just the opposite: I must stay little and become less and less.”

Way Needs Looks Mean Littles I Can Facts Jesus Heaven Wish Grows Growing Up Impossible Arms Opposites Bigger Aim Faults Saint Lifts Spite Going To Heaven

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“One thing I want to clarify - that every service member, veteran, wants us to remember - is that the vast majority of people returning from service come back completely healthy. But when we do come across someone who is struggling. We have to develop a culture of open arms and acceptance so that they feel comfortable saying, "I'm a veteran. And by the way, I need little help." This is something we need to do in this country around mental health as a whole - destigmatizing mental health.”

“You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent.”

Needs Writing Has Beens Feelings Novel Ready Arms Demand Agents Rip Hacked

Author:Jodi Picoult

“We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.”

Needs Long War Nations Term Effects Security Arms Dollars Defense Long Term Adequate Weakening Adequacy

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you.”

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Book:The Spirit of Love; A Short Confutation of Dr. Warburton's Defence; Of Justification by Faith and Works, Volume 8: Of Justification by Faith and Works

Source: The Spirit of Love; A Short Confutation of Dr. Warburton's Defence; Of Justification by Faith and Works, Volume 8: Of Justification by Faith and Works

“When we think about living donor transplant, what we're banking on is the ability of the liver to regenerate itself. Now, it's not the same sort of regeneration we think about with the starfish where we cut off the arm and it grows a new arm. With the liver, what happens is the remaining liver gets bigger, and your body knows the size of the liver that it needs, and when it recognizes that there is not enough liver, it sends nutrients and signals to the liver and says "get bigger."”

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Author:John Roberts

“There's nothing tough about playing Third. All a guy needs is a strong arm and a strong chest.”

Needs Guy Strong Arms Tough Thirds Chests Strong Arms

Author:Frankie Frisch

“The seven dwarfs were each on different little trips. Happy was into grass and grass alone. Happy, that's all he did. Sleepy was into reds. Grumpy, too much speed. Sneezy was a full blown coke freak. Doc was a connection. Dopey was into everything. Any old orifice will do for Dopey. He's always got his arm out and his leg up. And then, the one we always forget, because he was Bashful. Bashful didn't use drugs. He was paranoid on his own. Didn't need any help on that ladder.”

Needs Littles Different Helping Use Forget Too Much Arms Drug Connections Seven Legs Speed Grass Freak Ladders Paranoid Coke Sleepy Dwarfs Grumpy Bashful

Author:George Carlin

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. I really hope no one misinterprets this quote as being about masturbation.”

Ifs Needs Ends Helping Hands Remember Arms Masturbation Helping Hand

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“Arms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against the common enemy without any charge at all, and in quantities determined by the need and their availability.”

World Needs Should Use Common Enemy Arms Asking Determined Our World Quantity Availability Merchandise Common Enemy

Author:Che Guevara

“The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.”

“If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go-that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state-then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm's length.”

Ifs Way Want Needs States Path Arms Distance Liberation Length Take Time

Book:When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening

Source: When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening

“You need to write a book, what's going on with my serve. It's disaster. I don't bend my legs. Instead of jumping forward, I'm kicking it too much instead of hitting it. ... I drop my head, I don't hold the left arm. It's so much, that you just - I don't know. I know this, and I'm still so stupid that I continue doing it.”

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Author:Dinara Safina

“Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.”

Needs Feels Sin Arms Blessing Mercy Repentance Savior

Author:Neil L. Andersen

“Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see to it that men and women who would never hesitate to go see a doctor if they had a broken arm or came down with the flu, that they have that same attitude when it comes to their mental health.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.”

Ifs Want Needs Ends Helping Hands Arms Proof Beer God Love Helping Hand God Loves Us Living Proof

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.”

“We need to embed our forces - our troops inside the Iraqi military. We need to arm directly the Kurds. And all of that has to be done in concert with the Arab nations.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“You can create substances with other naturally grown substances and you can synthesize beautiful bouquets of flowers without spending an arm and a leg, using the citrus fruits, which are much more affordable than flowers, because you need so many flowers to create the essences. In this country [USA], there is not a traditional science of making it. The Native Americans never did it. They bundled the sage.”

Needs Country Beautiful Flower Arms Essence Fruit Legs Spending Traditional Substance Usa Native Native American Sage Affordable Bouquets Citrus

Author:Horst Rechelbacher

“It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.”

People Needs Enough Law Arms Drug Slavery Drug Laws

Author:Marian Wright Edelman