Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow…

Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

— Jacque Fresco

Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or…

— Sheila Kamerman

If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going…

— Joseph Campbell

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their…

— Amy Chua

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be…

— Philip Roth

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak…

— Roger Ebert

If we get better our customers will demand we get bigger.

— S. Truett Cathy

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps…

— Alexander MacLaren

Money should be ones demand and command one should not become slave of money..

— Melchor Lim

There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no…

— Mark Ruffalo

Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started…

— Serzh Sargsyan