The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts. — Mary E. Hunt Copy Share Image
“We desire an exciting future, but the demand for familiar and comfortable tempers our steps to the point that often our steps… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token, action sequences are great to do. They have… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
It is a kind of self-projection of our sins when we insist on other people becoming good. In reality, we wish to… — Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia Copy Share Image
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If I am truly honest, I have to acknowledge that the demands I am so convinced are coming from the outer world… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible… — Meir Kahane Copy Share Image
There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is a general maxim that all governments find a use for as much money as they can raise. Indeed, they have… — James Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not a Twitter fan. I do it because I feel responsible to the two million people that follow me, but Twitter… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one's own needs (and I fear that most marriages are… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
Or I could see Fish, Just a button up, Like a Mayor, Like a President, Just demands so much from his teammates,… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When the rich build bigger, they shift the frame of reference that shapes the demands of the near rich, who travel in… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches… — Charles Hummel Copy Share Image
“Probably the best way of knowing that there is likely to be a large demand is to create something that relieves a… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The reality is that we do not have an air traffic control system that is smart enough and technologically capable enough to… — James May Copy Share Image
No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Do not put conditions on the love that you give¦accept people the way they are.. Do not expect and demand that people… — Jacquiline Sandiego Copy Share Image
But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Freedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other. — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
But I also think it's up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature… — Nickolas Ashford Copy Share Image
I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous,… — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
