Demand Quotes
2397 Demand quotes by 1748 unique authors
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If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
— George Takei
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You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who…
— Sue Wicks
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Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate…
— Whitney M. Young
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It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up…
— Roy H. Williams
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
— Norman Lear
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Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples…
— Alister E. McGrath
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Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism…
— Josemaria Escriva
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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing…
— Yvon Chouinard
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If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite…
— Martha Stout
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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the…
— Johan Huizinga
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Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness that we call…
— Amy Carmichael
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We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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We always purchase the latest technology and equipement ahead of when we actually need it, so it is always ready to work when the real…
— Unknown Author
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Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper…
— Alain de Botton
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The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no…
— Ajahn Sumedho
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For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.
— Mary McCarthy
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Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long…
— David Leavitt
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Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images…
— Matt Chandler
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Truth does not demand belief...
— Dan Barker
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I know that [Mike] Tyson talked about wanting to eat his opponent's children, but I don't think he ever had the balls to do it.…
— Zach Braff
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There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this…
— Medard Boss
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Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for…
— Maria Jeritza
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