#need

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#countries #give #hope #instability #intellectuals

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#comic #humor #i #i think #ingredient

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#badly #either #hear #listening #lying

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. ↗

— Tom Waits

#blind man #bulb #cane #imagination #like

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#forever #forgotten #lasts #lists #need

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#government #individual #need #responsibility #rights

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#fight #human #human rights #need #references

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#calling #i #i am #must #needs

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#going #help #helped #helping #here

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#kids #learn #lessons #many #need