While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
Sissela Bok

Disarmament requires trust.
Gustav Heinemann

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.
Alfred Molina

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
Charles Buck

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
Richard Ford

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

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
Beryl Bainbridge

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
Walter F. Mondale

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Molly Ivins

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
Henry Chadwick

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.
David Blunkett

Always do something that requires you and your date to talk.
Steven Hill

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
Raquel Welch

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
Shoshana Zuboff

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
David Seabury

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
Otto Weininger

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
Eric Allman

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
Steven Bochco

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering