Famous quotes containing the words require and/or character:
“We should be slow to mend, my friends, as slow to require mending.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Consider the difference between looking and staring. A look is voluntary; it is also mobile, rising and falling in intensity as its foci of interest are taken up and then exhausted. A stare has, essentially, the character of a compulsion; it is steady, unmodulated, fixed.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)