Requires Quotes

Anthropology requires the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Margaret Mead

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Walter Murch

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

Lord Mansfield

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it toyour guests is a sign of fatigue.

William F. Buckley

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

George Washington Carver

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Germaine Greer

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Alfred North Whitehead

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times

Aeschylus

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

C.S. Lewis

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Paul Gauguin

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

Molly Ivins

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Aristotle