Quotes of: Require Keyword

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.

Lee R. Raymond

There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

P. J. Harvey

A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that I be forgiven for anything I may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness.  Conversely, if not fo...

Creatures of Light and Darkness

Intimacy between people requires closeness as well as distance. It is like dancing. Sometimes we are very close, touching each other or holding each other; sometimes we move away from each other and let the space between us become an area where we ca...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood in such an act of humility is a staggering notion. As it is, He willingly gave His blood, in the flesh, so that others might find life, for it is writ...

Immanuel's Veins

Old English poetry is characterised by a number of poetic tropes which enable a writer to describe things indirectly and which require a reader imaginatively to construct their meaning. The most widespread of these figurative descriptions are what ar...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years to form a language; that it is of exceedingly slow growth. We also know that...

Some Mistakes of Moses

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Children of Dune

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Children of Dune

To enjoy true, vibrant health, increased awareness, effort, and focus are required.

Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids

Perhaps her requirements were too great, Or her indulgence for human weakness too small, For her attempts to form a friendship had always Ended in disappointment.

Claudia

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

I would swear that I could practically hear crickets in the ensuing silence, if not for the fact that the stale air probably kills anything that requires oxygen to breathe.

The Conservancy

And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.

City of Stairs

And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever

...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.

The Enchantress Of Florence

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

The Exiled Queen

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

The Flight of the Eagle

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

Faith of the Fallen

I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.

Fingersmith

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses