Required Quotes
1156 quotes by 955 authors
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From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I."…
— Nancy Werlin
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Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you…
— Jesse Ball
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Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You…
— Salman Rushdie
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the…
— Abraham Verghese
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Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required…
— Joe Hill
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Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real…
— Margo Lanagan
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But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same…
— Margaret Atwood
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Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
— Joseph Campbell
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In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All…
— Daniel Suarez
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This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment…
— Martin Buber
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It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed.…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their…
— William Shakespeare
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The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his…
— Milan Kundera
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Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with…
— Max Brooks
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That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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