A Quote by Oscar Peterson

I don't require lust, sex, or classic beauty; I require trust, respect, and honesty. All else builds from there.

Oscar Peterson

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Oscar Peterson
Canadian - Musician
August 15, 1925 - December 23, 2007

Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.

William Greider

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Mary Pipher

Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law enforcement easy for them in a liberal society.

Edward Snowden

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

Alexander Hamilton

I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

Christopher Phillips

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

Calvin Coolidge

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.

William Branch Giles

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

John Oates

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

Irwin Edman

In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort.

Brenda Strong

Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room.

Tim Murphy

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

Michael Sandel

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

Sholem Asch

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

John Lydon

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice