Demand Quotes · Page 5

“Great praxis demands great piety.”

— Sallie McFague

There is a supply for every demand.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Success always demands a greater effort.

— Anonymous

“They're going to demand your death, Darren.”

— Darren Shan

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

— Alan Autry

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Art demands constant observation.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

— Michel de Montaigne

I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.

— George Stephanopoulos

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

— Gloria Steinem

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

— Fausto Cercignani

“When life takes something that is yours, you have every right to demand it back!”

— Megan Squires

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

— Elbert Hubbard

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

— Rajneesh

The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.

— Peter Dicken

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

— Robert Grudin

The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

— Henry Cloud

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video…

— Leonard Maltin

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all…

— E. F. Schumacher

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

— Nicolas Chamfort

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

— Bertrand Russell

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

— Immanuel Kant

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

— Hermann Hesse

The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is…

— Edward John Carnell

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We would like to see science and higher education developing here [on the Russian Far East], so that it could become one…

— Vladimir Putin

The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections…

— Andrea Zittel

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid…

— Margaret Thatcher

If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely…

— Harry Browne

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a…

— Jack Kornfield

If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition…

— Midge Decter

Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your…

— Ken Schoolland

All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total…

— Simon Mawer

Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along…

— Deepak Chopra

It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

— Mark Ruffalo