Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Kids don't even know what it means that you have to watch a show on Thursday night at 9 o'clock, on any… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
“It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I suppose that one of the psychological principles of advertising is to so hammer the name of your product into the mind… — Robert Benchley 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
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
The economic borderlines of our world will not be drawn between countries, but around Economic Domains. Along the twin paths of globalization… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge. I… — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. — Ernst Engel Copy Share Image
The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment...… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity. — Gilles Clement Copy Share Image
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed. — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were… — Isabel Sanford Copy Share Image
You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
