Top 100 Requirement Quotes
#1. Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
Babe Paley
#2. It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
Maya Lin
#3. Strangely, the job description did not specify that as a requirement.
Michelle Knudsen
#4. It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.
Dan Quayle
#5. The Reeds take people in like they're family. Anyone. The only requirement is that you have a pulse. And if you don't have a heart, they'll give you theirs.
Tammy Falkner
#6. Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.
Franklyn Ajaye
#7. The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.
John Roberts
#8. A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.
Dallin H. Oaks
#9. Until you recognize the need, the absolute requirement for taking responsibility, you will not succeed. Once you do accept the responsibility, however, the Egoscue Method never fails. Never. No drugs, no surgery, no machines, no miracles. Just You. A normal person, doing normal things.
Pete Egoscue
#10. I was begging you not to get married and if you do manage to talk some poor woman into marrying you, please pull out," Paul said in a slow, condescending manner, raising his eyebrows in hopes of clarifying. "Sterilization should be a legal requirement for pricks like you.
Kele Moon
#11. Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.
Adrien Brody
#12. My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.
Phil Foglio
#13. My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.
Valerie June
#14. She has carefully audited her life and found she has no requirement for a husband.
Helen Smith
#15. The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own.
Dorothea Lange
#16. I think that if I were in a satisfying marriage, I would probably choose monogamy, but I wouldn't want that to be a requirement.
Jamie Johnson
#17. I am only an idea, a requirement breathed to life-an instrument. A tool.
Dawn Metcalf
#18. Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.
Douglas Preston
#19. A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.
Paul Simon
#20. The process of establishing the identity of passport applicants needs to be strengthened by introducing a requirement for some applicants to attend a passport office in person.
Des Browne
#21. If you're a publisher and you forbid deep linking into your site, or have a paid wall or registration requirement, then you're making it hard to 'point to' your content. When no one points to your content, your content is harder to find because search uses links as a proxy for popularity.
John Battelle
#22. Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.
Samuel Reshevsky
#23. The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
Dean Acheson
#24. That a mystery must have a resolution is obviously not a requirement of nature. It is, in fact, another deceit of writers
Manu Joseph
#25. The third requirement for success is ingenuity - thinking
Atul Gawande
#26. The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis
#27. What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders ... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young ... 11 ... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid
#28. She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
Emily Dickinson
#30. Feeling bad is not a requirement; it's something we agree to. Cut it loose!
Cheri Huber
#31. The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.
Lachlan Murdoch
#32. With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
Aristotle.
#33. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
Norman Cousins
#34. Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.
Aleksandar Hemon
#35. Reverie by the open window in the sweet futility of a mild evening was yet to strike the Australian male as a requirement. (There would be the question of fly screens, for one thing.)
Shirley Hazzard
#36. I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.
Arabella Weir
#37. He preferred the term "study" to "office," as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certainly work, but it wasn't a requirement.
Nora Roberts
#38. Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.
Bede Griffiths
#39. In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.
Garry Breitkreuz
#40. To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?
Rick Perry
#41. As a re-creation of reality, a work of art has to be representational; its freedom of stylization is limited by the requirement of intelligibility; if it does not present an intelligible subject, it ceases to be art.
Ayn Rand
#42. I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.
Alan Dershowitz
#43. A well-trained marathoner will select a stride length that is somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of her total height. This means that she has less of a vertical displacement requirement.
Jim Gourley
#44. Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.
Jim Cymbala
#45. Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
Epictetus
#46. Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy.
Nicholas Kristof
#47. The one fundamental requirement to increase the flow of fatty acids out of adipose tissue - to increase lipolysis - and so decrease the amount of fat in our fat tissue, is to lower the concentration of insulin in the bloodstream.
Gary Taubes
#48. The first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.
Deborah Harkness
#50. To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.
Edvard Grieg
#51. After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them.
Peter Kreeft
#52. In those days, the main requirement to be on the Food Network was being able to get there by subway.
Bobby Flay
#53. What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#54. You are so not an asshole. (Tory)
Trust me, I can be. But I have a height requirement before I break ass on someone. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#55. Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.
Barbara Holland
#56. Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Claudia Alta Johnson
#57. You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.
Richard Masur
#58. Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.
Malcolm Forbes
#59. I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.
Luc Sante
#60. After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.
Timothy Garton Ash
#61. The 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'commanded' because it has first been given.
Pope Benedict XVI
#62. There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
David Letterman
#63. I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes.
Tony Dungy
#64. Life is a school of the spirit, Aidan," Ruadh intoned with gentle insistence. "Learning is our soul's requirement, and
Stephen R. Lawhead
#65. I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.
Robert Breault
#66. Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
Wendy Kopp
#67. You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship. And, this is a great hobby for fathers and sons to share.
Dick Miller
#69. As Needed' - Getting your personal needs met is a core requirement for mental health. Do you know what your needs are?
Tricia Ferrara
#70. I don't know if you're hip to this, but aside from genetics, the number one requirement for being a drunk is self-pity.
Jane Lotter
#71. The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.
Gwynne Dyer
#72. Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
Celia Green
#73. Expressing reverence for Reagan has been almost a requirement for Republican presidential candidates since 1988, but Mr. Walker has taken to it like an apostle to his creed.
Anonymous
#74. Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#75. Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#76. The first requirement of civilisation is that men should be willing to repress their basest instincts and appetites: failure to do which makes them, on account of their intelligence, far worse than mere beasts.
Theodore Dalrymple
#77. Struggle is not an option: it's a biological requirement.
Daniel Coyle
#78. Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.
Kofi Annan
#79. It's not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.
James Cameron
#80. There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.
Robert Martensen
#81. There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
William Vickrey
#82. There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke ... and knowing it.
Randy Alcorn
#83. The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
Seth Godin
#84. I've found that the men worth fucking are far more good-natured about the female body in its varied forms than is generally acknowledged. 'Naked and smiling' is one male friend's only (physical) requirement for a lover.
Cheryl Strayed
#85. Could having a face be such an important requirement? Was being seen the cost of the right to see?
Kobo Abe
#86. Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.
Narendra Modi
#88. Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Jan Morris
#89. The difference between the modern laws and those of the past is that wisdom is no longer a respected requirement and it has become secondary in importance to bureaucratic procedure.
Gwendolyn Taunton
#90. A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.
Stephen Young
#91. Since Russia has the largest number of illegal immigrants, second only to the US, and immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs, I'm calling for a visa requirement for all those wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Alexei Navalny
#92. One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
Buzz Aldrin
#93. Surely we want to get to a point where women can be strong and powerful and not sexy. Or only sexy when they feel like it, not as a requirement to getting media coverage or being valued.
Anna Kessel
#94. Courage is a requirement for facing your fears, doing things differently, and applying any new habits that align with and support your goals.
John Manning
#95. I think we have to question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain toward other people as a membership requirement.
Brene Brown
#96. Happiness has no time limits or conditions; the only requirement is to give it away.
George Alexiou
#97. Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.
Jared Spool
#98. There is no requirement to foolishly just rush into a situation that requires careful consideration and analysis.
Steven Redhead
#99. Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain.
Timothy Noah
#100. Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
Zelda Popkin
