#need

I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#always #athlete #been #before #being

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#becomes #difference #does #else #make

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#made #needless #say #secretaries #wartime

There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#defenders #defense #during #faith #fighting

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#became #care #else #family #getting

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. ↗

— Martin Luther

#devil #fellows #need #old #since

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart. ↗

— Allen Iverson

#court #got #heart #i #just

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#benjamin franklin #especially #felt #foreign #foreign policy

In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#baghdad #colonels #everybody #expensive #go

We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#banking #big #crisis #financial #financial crisis