Requirement Quotes

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

You have to be used to that responsibility, keeping on doing what is required from you over a period of time.

To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.

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.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

A light here required a shadow there.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.