What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
I understand the demands for justice and fairness made by the L.G.B.T. community. — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
Legal land surveyors are few and far between and can find themselves in demand. — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill… — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King… — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies,… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One of the great things about a free market is that it's inherently and indefatigably Darwinistic. Left to its own devices, a… — Edward Britton Copy Share Image
Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the… — Walther Rathenau Copy Share Image