Require Quotes
1163 Require quotes by 901 unique authors
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If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is…
— Italo Calvino
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I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my…
— Michael Chabon
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Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
— Mother Teresa
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We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely…
— Patrick Carman
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The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts…
— Albert Schweitzer
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I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it…
— Graham Greene
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There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.
— Tom Robbins
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I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an…
— Charlotte Bronte
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that…
— Sidney Poitier
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It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to…
— Jean Webster
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I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or…
— Jennifer Weiner
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A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. […] The telegraph…
— Neil Postman
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And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling…
— Trinh T. Minh-ha
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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take…
— Alexandre Dumas
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;…
— Harold Bloom
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Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without…
— Ron Paul
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Employers are like horses — they require management.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.
— Sharon Shinn
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big plans require big action
— Greg Behrendt
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Virgo: Your teddy bear will reveal that he is pregnant and will require counseling.
— Sue Limb
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