“Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them.” Has BeensEnergyNeededAreasOutstanding Author:Allen Shawn
“Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive, when it causes suffering among their neighbors, you can be sure the religion has been corrupted and reform is desperately needed.” PeopleMayHas BeensReligionSufferingCausesReligiousNeededBehaviorNeighborViolentReformGod LoveDestructiveMandates Author:Charles Kimball
“In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.” IfsWorldHas BeensStillsIdeasAgeOrderDifferencesCompanyModernGeniusNeededRiversInventionFallenGrayBellsSolitaryTelephonesModern AgeGraham Bell Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.” MenFirstsHas BeensWarYoungCareersNeededMy FamilyExcitingCuriosityCuriousJournalistYoung ManAffectedGlamorous Author:Sebastian Junger
“I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.” MayHas BeensBodyNeededShapesDecidedWork OutYour BodyFormalWorkoutDecreaseGetting In Shape Author:Paul Stanley
“The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.” Has BeensLiteratureGrowthTearsNeededParody Book:Leacock on Life Source: Leacock on Life
“The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.” MayHas BeensLightFallFailingMissingDangerNeededHighestWake UpBusyPerceiveUnconsciousAbidingPresence Of God Author:Phillips Brooks
“Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved'.” Has BeensProduceNeededInvolvedResearchComplexityArrangementsUnbelievableDnaFlew Author:Antony Flew