Require

Famous quotes containing the word require:

“At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)