To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.
The good teams, the dominant teams, aren't necessarily dominant in stadiums, but they are dominant largely in moments, when they do what's required to get out of stadiums with victories.
How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!
I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.
Meditation is like farming. . . the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.
No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.
You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so. . .
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
. . . the law which is never to be broken is never required.
People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.
No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.
To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.