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“Before I was going to be an actress, I was going to be a veterinarian! I thought I was one as a child. I was the kid who was like, 'Daddy! I want a kitty! It needs a mommy!' And my dad was such a sucker. Every time I would beg, with tears flying down my face, about how this animal needs love, needs a home. He would cave.”

Want Needs Children Home Kids Faces Animal Tears Dad My Dad Actresses Flying Caves Daddy Sucker Kitties Need Love Veterinarian

Author:AnnaLynne McCord

“There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.”

Needs Children Enough Names Tears Add Entertainment

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.”

Needs May Grows Sacrifice Blood Tears Flower Fine Flow India Soil

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.”

Needs Looks Pain Heaven Tears Sorrow Rain Madness Harm Pity Torture Bitterness Dread Distress Harsh Look At Me Anguish Woe Discomfort

Book:Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart.”

Needs Looks Tears Rivers Oscars

Book:Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose

Source: Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose

“Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him. It is very natural and very human behaviour. But it is not superhuman.”

“They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.”

Needs May Study Tears Masters Court Revenge Envy

Book:The Holy Court in Five Tomes. The First Treating of Motives, which Should Excite Men of Quality to Christian Perfection: the Second of the Prelate, Souldier, Statesman, and Lady: the Third of Maxims of Christianity Against Prophaness, Divided Into Three Parts, Viz. Divinity, Government of this Life, and State of the Other World: the Fourth Containing the Command of Reason Over the Passions: the Fifth Containing the Lives of the Most Famous and Illustrious Courtiers; Taken Both Out of the Old and

Source: The Holy Court in Five Tomes. The First Treating of Motives, which Should Excite Men of Quality to Christian Perfection: the Second of the Prelate, Souldier, Statesman, and Lady: the Third of Maxims of Christianity Against Prophaness, Divided Into Three Parts, Viz. Divinity, Government of this Life, and State of the Other World: the Fourth Containing the Command of Reason Over the Passions: the Fifth Containing the Lives of the Most Famous and Illustrious Courtiers; Taken Both Out of the Old and

“Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.”

“If there is a fence and you don't know its purpose, don't just assume there isn't one and tear it down. Find out what the fence is intended to accomplish. You might see it needs to stay.”

Ifs Knows Needs Might Purpose Tears Assuming Accomplish Fence

Author:Jerry Vines

“I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.”

Thinking Needs Culture Responsibility Media Tears Approach Intellectual Responsible Raises Property Hip Hop Rap Handle Hips Journalist Hops Print Educate Intellectual Property Depiction

Author:KRS-One

“O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.”

Men Needs Art Book Women Sin Answers Records Tears Angel Folly Men Women

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.”

“One of the mistakes they often make is the designers over-accessorize or over-elaborate. So you realize: this would work if they removed X and Y. And actually, that's the sort of thing that translates into writing, because a lot of the time you realize, I feel I need to add something here but actually what I need to do is subtract. And then there's always the psychodrama and the tears and the rage and the feuds.”

Ifs Needs Feels Writing Realizing Mistake Tears Add Rage Designer Translate Feuds

Author:James Wolcott

“We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.”

Needs Self Values Evil Christ Tears Wind Exercise Roots Glorious Dependence Rotten Tempest

Book:Strengthen My Spirit

Source: Strengthen My Spirit

“The lesson of the way of love is that evil can only be overcome by good. We don't need to reach out and tear down the things that are evil because nothing which is contrary to the law of love can endure.”

Way Needs Law Evil Love Is Tears Lessons Overcoming Endure Contrary Reach Out Way Of Love

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones. And so the muscles will have endurance and stability. And flexibility, which helps you throw the ball harder or have the snap to hit a ball. Or to take off quickly to steal a base.”

“You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to have it now!" Whether it's tears, whether it's a five-page scene. You can't put it off tomorrow because we're already behind; you've got to have it. I'm just amazed at the casting and how wonderful everybody was.”

Way Needs Moments Helping Actors Behinds Five Wonderful Tears Tomorrow Scene Pages Come Up Coaches Amazed Casting Behind You Great Actors

Author:Courtney B. Vance

“Eleanor Roosevelt's very helpful to a lot of children who cannot speak French, who do not write well. And Marie Souvestre is fierce. She tears up students' papers that are not, you know, perfect. And Eleanor Roosevelt goes around, again, being incredibly helpful to children in need, children in trouble. And her best friends are the naughtiest girls who are in trouble. And she is a leader. And she is encouraged to be a leader. And everybody falls in love with her. She's a star.”

Knows Needs Writing Wells Children Fall Girl Speak Stars Perfect Leader Trouble Students Tears Paper Falling In Love Helpful Fierce Papers Eleanor Marie Speaks French

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when you see that, and to know that a little bit of your fingerprint, your American DNA is a part of that, as well as those stealth bombers and that bomb that's lodged in the side of the school that has "Made in USA" on it in Gaza, and all of the unmanned drones that are blowing up weddings and things of that nature, to know that you pay for that, you really have - you don't have to do it now, but you need to think about that.”

Thinking Knows Needs Wells Littles Made School Bits Sides Pay Tears Taxes Little Bit Dollars Crowds Usa Bombs Gas Dna Drones Gaza Fingerprints Bombers Stealth Blowing Up Tax Dollars

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”

Life Inspirational Needs Eye Views Emotion Tears Perspective Optimism Meaningful Life Get Well Optimism In Life Challange

Author:Alex Tan

“We all acknowledge there are some things that need to be torn down and removed, but it seems to me that a leader who removes something must be able to recognize the necessity of replacing it with something that is effective and sustainable - so you don't just tear down, you have to build up.”

Needs Seems Able Leader Tears Down And Acknowledge Remove Torn

Author:James Robison

“When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.”

Needs Heart Children Grief Tears Angel Flow Punishment Repentance Correcting Chastisement

Author:Horace Mann

“one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.”

Knows Needs Sun Doors One Thing Car Fronts Tears Paper Sorry Wit Ems Sympathy Apology Make Me Happy Front Doors Cuz Independance Colored Girls

Author:Ntozake Shange

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”

Source: Great Expectations

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”

Knows Needs Heart Hard Earth Heaven My Own Awareness Tears Expectations Rain Shame Sorry Dust Gentle Ashamed Cried Ingratitude Great Expectations

Book:British Classics: Great Expectations

Source: British Classics: Great Expectations

“My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.”

Want Needs Feels Different Tears Drug Throat Kicking Withdrawing

Author:Keith Ablow

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”

Men Needs Suffering Grief Courage Tears Witness Ashamed Bores Search For Meaning Mans Search For Meaning Life Altering

Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.”

Knows Men Needs Feels Dream Night Turns Asks Sleep Cities Wife Cry Tears Lovers Lows Female Mark Fats Obsession Ships Nurse Swings Muse Exes Nemesis Cities At Night

Book:The Information

Source: The Information

“And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle”

Ifs Knows Men World Needs America Winning Nations Blood Greatness Tears Willing Ready Battle Treasure Strife Readiness

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.”

Needs Light Eye Left Too Much Honesty Tears Goes On Comfort One Day Illusion Naked Bricks Liberating Shields Relentless Dazzle Bright Lights

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Sometimes my need to love hurts-- myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain...To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.”

Way Needs Humans Sometimes Pain Passion Courses Causes Sides Hurt Tears My Family Refuse Caring Cures Love Hurt Stop Caring

Book:Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

Source: Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

“I tried to breathe, failing. I clutched her to me, tears slipping from under my closed eyes. It was as if her soul was liquid fire and I could feel her aura, swirling about mine. She was taking my aura. But I wanted to give it to her, to cat her in a small part of me and protect her. Her needs made her so fragile.”

Ifs Needs Giving Feels Made Soul Eye Wanted Fire Failing Tears Mines Protect Cat Breathe Fragile Liquid Auras Slipping Small Parts Closed Eyes

Author:Kim Harrison

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

Life Inspirational Needs Writing Written Sadness Tears Sad Life And Death

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.”

Needs Ends Faces Joy Girl Courses Names Grief Boys Doubt Tears Regret Deeds Lust Scorn I Regret Fear Not

Book:Watt

Source: Watt

“I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of making yourself look ridiculous? You don't always have to pretend to be strong,there is no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,you shouldn't be concerned about what other people are thinking. Cry if you need to,it's good to cry out all your tears,because only then you will be able to smile again.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Wells Looks Able Strong Cry Tears Prove Concerned Ridiculous Amazed

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?”

Knows Men Needs Said Used Mother Tears Weapons Halls

Book:A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?”

Source: Rosie Dunne

“I suppose I’ll have to clean up Freddy’s brains; I hate to leave a mess for the home owners. Hand me that plastic bag; I need to put it over his head to keep him from leaking. Oh, relax, Freddy; I’ll tear an airhole for you.” - Mercer”

Needs Home Hands Hate Brain Tears I Hate Clean Mess Relax Bags Owners Plastic Plastic Bags

Author:Rachel Caine

“Marc/Faythe/Jace love triangle moment: "This isn't about you...." "Well, it should be!" he shouted, and I flinched. "Everything I do is about you, and I want the reverse to be true, too." I wiped more tears, my throat aching with words that would only make this worse. "What, you need a reminder? That's what he was doing, right? And now you smell like him. You probably taste like him. You should taste like me..." He was on me before I could even catch my breath.”

Want Needs Should Wells Moments Tears Taste Breaths Smell Like Me Being True Throat Reverse Jace Reminders Doing Right Triangles Love Triangle

Author:Rachel Vincent

“And you," he says, "you need to talk to your boy." He lifts my chin. "And if he needs saving, then you save him. Isn't that what you told me you did for each other?" I let go a few more tears but then I nod. "Over and over again.”

Ifs Needs Boys Tears Letting Go Saving Lifts Chins

Author:Patrick Ness

“We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.”

Needs Said Self Compassion Tears Pride Empathy Dear Cheeks Thrones

Book:The White Witch

Source: The White Witch

“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”

Needs Has Beens Ends Wisdom Joy Loses Written Sadness Tears Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Shed Brilliance Pure Joy

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.”

Needs Blood Tears Repentance Lambs

Book:The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness

Source: The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness

“He smiled his dimpled smile. "Well, I've found something in my heart, my love, and it's you. You fill it up so completely that I don't need anything else." His gaze turned solemn. "I don't want to be the river anymore. I want to be the earth that the tree roots in. And I believe that I can, if you'll be my tree. Will you?" It was too much. She began to cry, though she smiled so he'd know that they were happy tears. "That proposal...is vastly superior...to your last one," she choked out between sobs. "I would very much love to be your tree." -Jarret and Annabel”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Believe Wells Heart I Can Earth Lasts Found I Believe Too Much Tree Cry Tears My Heart Rivers Roots Superiors Proposal Solemn Much Love Happy Tears

Author:Sabrina Jeffries