Sorely Needed Quotes

#1. Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

Saul Bellow

#2. He could have a break at last, albeit a short one, one he sorely needed. And with that appealing thought he further squelched the subconscious screams, true message lost in the deceptive world of emotion and will.

Marcha A. Fox

#3. We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

Paul Ryan

#4. Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

Louis Kronenberger

#5. Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.

Patrick Dodson

#6. Your dad said you stopped playing right after I left." He did? "My dad talks too much." "Why, Tru?" "I dunno." I shrug. "He just does." "No." Jake smiles, coming over to me. "Not why does your dad talk too much. Why did you stop playing after I left?" "When you left, I guess the music left with you.

Samantha Towle

#7. The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.

Harold Rosenberg

#8. Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.

Peter Kreeft

#9. Do you have any idea how mortifying it is to have your own mother standing up in front of everybody, drawing pictures of penises?

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved
faster than my brain.

Katherine McIntyre

#11. We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

Keith Richards

#12. A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.

Ishmael Reed