There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I demand a lot of myself. I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself.… — Gary Kovacs Copy Share Image
The supply price and the demand price should be roughly the same. You're not supposed to have two different prices. According to… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes,… — Lucinda Franks Copy Share Image
America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness;… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
[Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands,… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms… — Matthew Rabin Copy Share Image
The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world… — Nelson Rockefeller Copy Share Image
All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified… — Austin Bradford Hill Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies. — John McCain Copy Share Image
We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today. — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
The maximalist demand of a complete ban on weapons, and the 'incremental steps' towards disarmament are both jammed. Will advancing IHL help… — Jonathan Granoff Copy Share Image
When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong,… — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life… Freedom demands structure. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it. — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession with personal demands, needs and disappointments? The answer is: Whatever you… — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Copy Share Image
Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
We urge you to understand the Palestinian reality, and not to rush in and impose conditions and demands that ignore this reality… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
Over time, people will notice what you are doing. Then you'll be in demand, and when you are in demand, you'll make… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products. — Wang Jianlin Copy Share Image
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of… — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image