Needy Quotes - Page 5

• But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes.

  Norma McCorvey

  Clothes, Abortion, Birth Control

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• The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by helping others who are truly needy. We promise those who will render this kind of service that, in some measure, you will be healed of the loss of loved ones or the dread of being alone. The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else's circumstances.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Love, Loss, Feel Better

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• Everyone in the world should sleep without fear at least for one night, sleep without fear. Everyone in the world should eat to their fill, at least for one day, eat to their fill. There should be one day when there is no violence, no one is injured, no one is harmed. All people young and old should serve the poor and needy, at least for one day serve selflessly. This is my dream....this is my prayer. Love is the answer, love is the way. Love is the answer, love is the way.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Dream, Prayer

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• Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, People, Giving

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.463, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Compassion, Wells, Known

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• God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.

  Lester Roloff

  Blessing, Poor, Shows

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• In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Development, Able, Individual

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.

  Donald Berwick

  People, Mind, Dollars

  Donald M. Berwick (2013). “Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It”, p.213, John Wiley & Sons

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• Atom bombs, something's wrong. D.E.A sent to Guam. Acid Trips, big fat chics. Purple Finstone Vitamins.All the needy rich are greedy. I find out you don't need me. Berlin wall starts to fall. I trip out to the wall. Hooray Horrah

  Chester Bennington

  Wall, Fall, Purple

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• What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Teaching, Writing, Caring

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• While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them to fulfill our need to belong, be liked, and be desired. This explains why some friends and family members can be so demanding, smothering, and needy. It also explains why we’re so easily inflated by praise and deflated by criticism. It’s as if others have the ability to determine our identity for that day based on a word or even a glance

  Mark Driscoll

  Struggle, Idols, People

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “Who Do You Think You Are?: Finding Your True Identity in Christ”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.

  Emma Forrest

  Believe, Love You, Sadness

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• I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.

  Lena Dunham

  Girlfriend, Would Be, Horrible

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.46, Random House

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• John was an extraordinary man. Our relationship has shaped much of my life. I have always loved him and never stopped loving him. That’s why I want to tell the real story of the real John – the infuriating, lovable, sometimes cruel, funny, talented and needy man who made such an impact on the world. John believed in the truth and he would want nothing less.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Real, Men, Impact

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• Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Giving, Stealing

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• Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands we put ourselves first at their expense. When we choose to be self-centered, we become less kind and content—more needy, sensitive, and demanding. More unsatisfiable. Moodiness and impatience, laziness and irresponsibility, are only selfishness in disguise.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Self, Capacity To Love, Demand

  Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare for Parents”, p.26, B&H Publishing Group

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• Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Self, Way, Calm

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• Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Jobs, Rome, Leader

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• The next kiss deepened, became more urgent, needy. There was no space between them, and she could feel he enjoyed their closeness. Riley heard him moan and they reluctantly broke apart.

  Jana Oliver

  Kissing, Space, Next

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.222, Pan Macmillan

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• Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fashion, Hate, Stupid

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.145, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think con man is the usual term. When somebody comes on television to tell a lot of needy people that God will send them to heaven if they send him $200, if that's not downright sociopathic, it's close.

  Martha Stout

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.

  Jim Carroll

  Loyalty, Watches, Body

  Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Pain, Order, Giving

  Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

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• So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

  Carol Shields

  Selfish, Maturity, Years

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• You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom-almost never-an even proposition.

  Emily Giffin

  Love Is, Emotional, People

  Emily Giffin (2006). “Baby Proof”

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