Demand Quotes

2397 Demand quotes by 1748 unique authors

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. — Le Corbusier
I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was,… — Louis Kahn
American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you. — Pat Metheny
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. — Murray Kempton
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the… — Friedrich Schiller
We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can… — Sherwood Boehlert
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. — Barack Obama
Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is. — Rajneesh
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,… — George Boole
I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage;… — Mary Wollstonecraft
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the… — Judith Lewis Herman
A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge… — Grantly Dick-Read
We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative. — Seth Godin
I demand a lot of myself. I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges… — Tom Cruise
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. — Edward Abbey
One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding;… — Edward Abbey
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly… — Friedrich August von Hayek
As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy. — Cliff Stearns
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. — Carrie Chapman Catt
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of… — Chinua Achebe
Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to… — Albert Bandura
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal… — Jacques Maritain
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus. — Joan Didion

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