Requirement Quotes

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom, Human, Person

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Abdul Kalam

Religion, Others, Promotion

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Virginia Satir

Daily, Growth, Survival

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.
Denis Waitley

Time, Small, Goal

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale

Sick, Harm, Hospital

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.
Newt Gingrich

Job, Training, Fact

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

Same, Sure, Fair

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

Good, Courage, Human

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
John Major

Politics, Patience, Long

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.
Dee Dee Myers

Time, Men, Same

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.
William J. Clinton

Work, True, Try

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.
Peter Singer

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Government, School, Making

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

Find, Path, Problem

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.
Sophia Bush

School, Wanted, High

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

Time, War, Veterans

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
Earl Warren

Person, Stop, Police

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.
Alan Dershowitz

Less, Torture, Warrant

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.
Lilli Palmer

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
Dean Acheson

Dull, Statesman

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
Ayelet Waldman

Graduation, Lesbian, Semester

The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field where solemn gravitas isn't a drawback; it's the whole point.
Rob Sheffield

Job, Important, Thinking

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.
T. Boone Pickens

Time, Long, Problem

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

Work, Time, Political

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.
Arabella Weir

Legal, Charity, Businesses

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
Nancy Kerrigan

Age, Good, Young

The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.
John Cornyn

Health, Congress, Avoid

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Lady Bird Johnson

Place, Library, Community

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.
Olivia Munn

Funny, Thinks, Hires

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.
Tom Daschle

Leadership, Down, American

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