Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

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• We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • First
  • Independence
  • Needed

• When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Kid
  • Needed
  • Belong

• I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Good
  • Me
  • Child

• Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Politics
  • Greatness
  • Needed

• I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Family
  • Me
  • Matter

• I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Think
  • Novel

• But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Good
  • She
  • Needs

• Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found.

  

  L. E. J. Brouwer
  • Found
  • Needed
  • Oil

• With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

  

  Donald Davis
  • God
  • Writing
  • History

• Burnett fidgeted. She had never seen Burnett like this. He looked like a kid who needed to go to the bathroom.

  

  Christie Craig
  • She
  • Kids
  • Needed

• To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

  

  Mary Queen of Scots
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Like

• The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Hope
  • Needed
  • Architect

• Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Needed

• I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

  

  William Klein
  • Photography
  • Needed
  • Balls

• We disbanded our intelligence and then found we needed it. Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face.

  

  William Colby
  • Found
  • Faces
  • Needed

• Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • People
  • Path
  • Understood

• I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Heaven
  • Needed
  • Trip

• I never like to think that we can't win a game, but this was certainly our toughest challenge of the season. We match up well with them, but we needed to have a big second half -- and we did.

  

  Mike Joyce Buzzcocks
  • Challenge
  • Win
  • Half

• I don't get up and look at e-mail. I don't even know my e-mail address. I needed one just to have a computer put on. But I never, ever even thought of going to it. It's just not what I'm about. I just don't want to waste my life with it. It's just too much; I think people are just a little too absorbed in all of that.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Needed
  • E-mail
  • Waste My Life

• My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

  

  Miguel Indurain
  • Balanced
  • Riders

• "I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • I Love
  • Mankind
  • Amazement

• When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and Ive done so ever since.

  

  Stuart Rose
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Night

• Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Political
  • Wind
  • Judging

• I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Needed