It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand… — Wayne Allard Copy Share Image
“Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different… — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I don't think leadership demands yes or no answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr Copy Share Image
Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today)… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
If you say that the gospel lays a claim upon people, then you are invading their personal space, and they feel as… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
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 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
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders.… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish --… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almost all of the demand for oil that suddenly pushed prices up was speculative demand. People began to speculate not only in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it. — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The demands of justice for broken law can be satisfied throughmercy, earned by your continual repentance and obedience to the laws ofGod...… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene,… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
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