Requiring Quotes

127 quotes by 119 authors

Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie… — Wilbur Ross
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. — Leland Ryken
Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian… — Tony Horwitz
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a… — Warren Buffett
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who… — Paulo Freire
The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already… — Sherwood Boehlert
When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel… — Stephen Chbosky
Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that… — Alan Dundes
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training. — Dick Cavett
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than… — Richard John Neuhaus
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage — Mark Twain
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort. — Henri Matisse
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as… — Robert Briffault
This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't… — Byron Dorgan
My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily… — Simon Greenleaf
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost… — Alain de Botton
God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds. — John Greenleaf Whittier

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