“When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time. — PLO Lumumba Copy Share Image
“If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing.” — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby. — Jeff B. Davis Copy Share Image
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy, — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul,… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline. — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much… — Edmund Ruffin Copy Share Image
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is… — Richard Jordan Copy Share Image
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
No subject was more important in the 2014 elections than healthcare, and Republicans in Congress should waste no time in taking decisive… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Success doesn't demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend. — David Joseph Schwartz Copy Share Image
I am NOT fighting for Muslims, believe me, when I demand Pakistan. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
