#needs

Sometimes - history needs a push. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#needs #push #sometimes

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#fine #fine thing #gap #helping #into

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#become #both #come #countries #developing

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #i think #needs #obstacles #romance

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#body needs #crisis #days #doing #early

What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#make #needs #participating #type #wrong

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#decided #feel #hoping #i #i can

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#his #immediate #inclined #lack #men

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#civilization #contradict #interpretations #needs #often

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #characters #everyday #everyday life #life