Demand Quotes · Page 21

One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.

— Dwight Macdonald

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

— Nadine Gordimer

You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever.

— Sharan Burrow

I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.

— Johnny Carson

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

— S. Truett Cathy

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

— Bill McCollum

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

— Andy Grove

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

— David James Duncan

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

— Roger Scruton

There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.

— Robert Cialdini

As we spend more, and as companies are pushed to invest, they say, "Hey wait a minute! There's more demand in the…

— Mohamed El-Erian

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders…

— Alexander Pope

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

— Marquis de Sade

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

— Kevyn Aucoin

Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress…

— Lisa Birnbach

When Donald Trump disingenuously demands to know why [Hillary] Clinton never tried to close the loopholes he used, the answer is: She…

— Kevin Drum

The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make…

— Fanny Burney

When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love…

— F. Sionil José

Combat forces of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, and other countries enforced the demands of the United Nations, ended the…

— George W. Bush

The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but…

— Richard Whately

How will the family unit be destroyed? ...[T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also…

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Serzh Sargsyan

The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a…

— Fred Brooks

Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage…

— Henri Lefebvre

Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the…

— Sam Harris

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without…

— Robert Charles Winthrop

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence,…

— Anthony Bourdain

My niceness has a very low threshold and that little girl just sucked it dry, so don’t push me, Olympain. I don’t…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

— Thomas Mann

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

— Gary Sinise

I'm not a machine. I don't see why people demand more of me than of other players.

— Rivaldo

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

— Starhawk

We are proud of 3 things: Democracy, Demographic dividend and Demand.

— Narendra Modi

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

— Samuel Butler

No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed.

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

— Ellis Peters