#requires

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#democracy #escaping #first #first step #full

Creating a nation requires the will of the people! ↗

— Edmund Barton

#nation #people #requires #will

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#achieve #case #dancing #depth #doing

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#genius #like #marriage #monogamy #requires

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on. ↗

— Michael Behe

#anything #arise #biological #complex #function

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. ↗

— Alban Berg

#also #composers #disciples #enthusiasm #feeling

It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#die #more #requires #suffer #than

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bend #bent #destiny #everything #having

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#creation #designed #dollars #efficient #environment

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#collective #demographic #economic #economic growth #futures