Demand Quotes

2397 Demand quotes by 1748 unique authors

Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give… — Royal Robbins
Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it. — Alfred Thayer Mahan
It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest… — Benjamin Tucker
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so;… — Roger Cohen
Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless. — Francis Schaeffer
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the… — Francis Schaeffer
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance… — Ravi Zacharias
A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers… — Christopher Columbus
To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return. — Kate Millett
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts....… — Calvin Coolidge
The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too… — Frederick Buechner
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents. — Beryl Markham
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up… — Robert M. Price
The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's… — Carl Safina
Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others. — Andrew Carnegie
The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand… — Isaac Barrow
I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press by the State...… — Frederic Bastiat
Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one… — Woody Allen
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He… — Robert Briffault
Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language. — Terence McKenna
We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death. — Sam Tanenhaus
I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of… — Rachel Roy
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response. — Carl von Clausewitz
This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all… — Mark Doty
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because… — Ivan Illich

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