Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.
Becoming successful is a rough journey that carries pain and requires perseverance.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Sometimes absence is required, to feel a person's presence more intensely.
I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.
To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off.
Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.
Levi," Maria called. "Come back. We're not finished yet." He paused "What, Maria?" "You asked me what I believe in? I believed in you." He nodded his head sadly. "Yes, you did. And before you met me, you believed in nothing. But that's the thing with...
If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those ...
You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequen...
Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware of these feelings and needs, peop...
Majority thinks that philosophy is useless not because of being completely uninterested in philosophical questions. In contrast, they would like to know at least from where they came, why they live and what will happen afterdeath. Majority underestim...
The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation and requires veganism as a matter of fundamental justice, is radically different from the welfarist paradigm, which, in theory focuses on reducing su...
[Father Flynn enters Sister Aloysius' room, looking very nervous] Father Brendan Flynn: [nervously] May I come in? Sister Aloysius Beauvier: [not looking at him] A third party would be required. Father Brendan Flynn: Look, what was Donald's mother do...
If we require some kind of sign, or "proof," for our belief in God, then we believe, or place our tust, not in God but in the sign or proof.
