Require

rɪˈkwaɪər

verb

to need or demand something

The word 'require' emphasizes a necessity for something to be fulfilled or provided. It conveys a sense of necessity or obligation in a formal or official context.

What do you require to exchange your ideas for mine?” “You think my convictions are for sale?” “Why not?” came the cold response.

Asimov, Isaac

Foundation 1 - Foundation

Then we asked him what he was going to answer when the King should require him to name his reward.

Mark Twain

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

I shall not go away, till you have given me the assurance I require.” “And I certainly never shall give it.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

I have even agreed to allow you to settle wildlings on the Gift, which was given to the Night’s Watch in perpetuity.” “You offer me empty lands and desolations, yet deny me the castles I require to reward my lords and bannermen.” “The Night’s Watch built those castles …” “And the Night’s Watch abandoned them.” “… to defend the Wall,” Jon finished stubbornly, “not as seats for southron lords.

George R. R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

VI They told her how, upon St. Agnes’ Eve, Young virgins might have visions of delight, And soft adorings from their loves receive Upon the honey’d middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did aright; As, supperless to bed they must retire, And couch supine their beauties, lily white; Nor look behind, nor sideways, but require Of Heaven with upward eyes for all that they desire.

John Keats

Poetry

I experienced that feeling of love which is the very essence of the soul and does not require an object.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.” “It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,” said Defarge.

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

”An act of disobedience must be a sin and require religious penalties.

Herbert, Frank

Dune

There again, progress for progress’s sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering.

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

He continues to bring me along to the chapel when I require it, to the meadow when I need it, to the studio when he wants my company so he can keep from sinking into a melancholia, missing his Iris.

Gregory Maguire

Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister

When you’ve got all you require, and you know that you will never want, that is all.

Bram Stoker

Dracula

And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince

But now what further hopes for me remain, To see my friends, or native soil, again; My tender infants, or my careful sire, Whom they returning will to death require; Will perpetrate on them their first design, And take the forfeit of their heads for mine?

Virgil

The Aeneid

Animals require an environment of warmth to flourish.

Dick, Philip K.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

I require an answer!

A. A. Milne

Winnie-the-Pooh

“How many centuries does a mind require to be understood?”—that is also a standard, one also makes a gradation of rank and an etiquette therewith, such as is necessary for mind and for star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

But you must be a thorough whaleman, to see these sights; and not only that, but if you wish to return to such a sight again, you must be sure and take the exact intersecting latitude and longitude of your first standpoint, else so chance-like are such observations of the hills, that your precise, previous standpoint would require a laborious rediscovery; like the Soloma Islands, which still remain incognita, though once high-ruffed Mendanna trod them and old Figuera chronicled them.

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

It has restored me to life!” “Then why on earth did you require so much persuasion to take it?” “Because you see that we boys are all like that!

Carlo Collodi

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Allowing, then, a horse to draw about half-a-ton, it will require a thousand horses to draw one such stone on the ground; how, then, were they to be lifted into the building by human hands?

Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason

"Was silver sufficient, or does he require gold?"

George R.R. Martin

The Tales of Dunk & Egg

One thing I was sorry for; when I bade him have the horns of the oxen gilded, he told me there would not be time, as it would require three days to do that; so you see we must do without this little superfluity.” “And where is he now?” “Who?” “Our host.” “Gone out in search of our equipage, by tomorrow it might be too late.” “Then he will be able to give us an answer tonight.” “Oh, I expect him every minute.” At this instant the door opened, and the head of Signor Pastrini appeared.

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Later in life, perhaps, when the sublime connections between his brain and his fingers rusted a little (when the small but undeniably brilliant world of his talent had moved on), he might require erasers.

Stephen King

Dark Tower 7 - The Dark Tower

But today, in the strange uncertainty of human nature, it seemed to require but so small an offence as this to make his cup to overflow.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot

I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert.” All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man.

Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

To describe them all would require a book as large as an English–Latin, Latin–English Dictionary, and the most we can do is to give one as a specimen of an average hour on the island.

J. M. Barrie

Peter and Wendy

Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,) May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view; To me these and the like of these are curiously answer’d by my lovers, my dear friends, When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us, Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

I’ve just decided to try and loop back around, although it will require miles of travel away from the inferno and then a very circuitous route back, when the first fireball blasts into the rock about two feet from my head.

Suzanne Collins

Hunger Games 1 - The Hunger Games

I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

She has parked her little car in her own little numbered slot, for which the Feds require her to pay about ten percent of her salary (if she doesn't like it she can take a taxi or walk) and walked up several levels of a blindingly lit reinforced-concrete helix in which most of the spaces -- the good spaces closer to the surface -- are reserved for people other than her, but empty.

Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

Must require some practice that.

James Joyce

Ulysses

We had sent our “horsemen of St. George,” gold sovereigns, by the thousand to the Beni Shakr, purchasing all the barley on their threshing floors: begging them not to mention it, but we would require it for our animals and for our British allies, in a fortnight.

T. E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

To plant the card in the machines would require an accomplice on the inside - someone who was closely connected with Precrime and had access to the analytical equipment.

Dick, Phillip

The Minority Report

“What is left of the Fedaykin, that band of brothers who served her son, pooled their poor resources to buy my way in here past the avaricious guardians who shield the Atreides from the realities of Arrakis.” Alia said: “Anything the Fedaykin require, they have only—” “He came to see me,” Jessica interrupted.

Frank Herbert

Children of Dune

“But if I am not deceived,” said I, “things are now moving which will require the union of all our strength.” ‘ “That may be so,” he said, “but the thought is late in coming to you.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring

But if I were going to lambaste somebody, I wouldn’t require any fancy ducks or swimming-strokes before a mirror, or any of these doodads and flipflops!

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

If not, I can arrange to let you have whatever you require.” “That ought to be all right,” said Raymond, who was standing by.

Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

I may here recall a remark formerly made, namely, that it might require a long succession of ages to adapt an organism to some new and peculiar line of life, for instance, to fly through the air; and consequently that the transitional forms would often long remain confined to some one region; but that, when this adaptation had once been effected, and a few species had thus acquired a great advantage over other organisms, a comparatively short time would be necessary to produce many divergent forms, which would spread rapidly and widely throughout the world.

Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species

This would require several days, but it had its advantages, for I was eager to see the sources of so famous a stream.

John Muir

My First Summer in the Sierra

He may even require thee to be an elephant-catcher, to sleep anywhere in these fever-filled jungles, and at last to be trampled to death in the Keddah.

Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book

“What service do you require?” “Can you put me through to the police, please?

Gaiman, Neil

Neverwhere

Thou seest how few the things are, the which if a man lays hold of, he is able to live a life which flows in quiet, and is like the existence of the gods; for the gods on their part will require nothing more from him who observes these things.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

At least, some hospitable gift bestow; 'Tis what the happy to the unhappy owe; 'Tis what the gods require: those gods revere; The poor and stranger are their constant care; To Jove their cause, and their revenge belongs, He wanders with them, and he feels their wrongs."

Homer

The Odyssey

I have even agreed to allow you to settle wildlings on the Gift, which was given to the Night’s Watch in perpetuity.” “You offer me empty lands and desolations, yet deny me the castles I require to reward my lords and bannermen.” “The Night’s Watch built those castles ...” “And the Night’s Watch abandoned them.” “... to defend the Wall,” Jon finished stubbornly, “not as seats for southron lords.

Martin, George, R. R.

A Dance With Dragons

This is what the teachings require, this is what the exalted one wants.

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

All these great artists burn the candle at both ends; they require a dissolute life, that suits the imagination to some extent.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

About the mossy trunk I wound me soon; For, high from ground, the branches would require Thy utmost reach or Adam’s: round the tree All other beasts that saw, with like desire Longing and envying stood, but could not reach.

John Milton

Paradise Lost

But I would have thee bear in mind, Sancho, that very often it is fitting and necessary for the authority of office to resist the humility of the heart; for the seemly array of one who is invested with grave duties should be such as they require and not measured by what his own humble tastes may lead him to prefer.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote

You have remarked more than once since I have been in the room that you had all the evidence which you require.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet

Not only the art of the farmer, the general direction of the operations of husbandry, but many inferior branches of country labour, require much more skill and experience than the greater part of mechanic trades.

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations