Demand Quotes
2397 Demand quotes by 1748 unique authors
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Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as…
— Russell Kirk
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As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished…
— Rod Dreher
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One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
— Uta Hagen
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I will meet the world's demands and win!
— Bob Proctor
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It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like…
— Murray Rothbard
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Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.
— Nouman Ali Khan
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Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.
— Mother Teresa
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You don't know what's on the inside until you put a demand on your potential.
— Joel Osteen
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Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed…
— Mark Haddon
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Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.
— Bill Hicks
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It should not be surprising if people believe easily in a God who makes no demands, but this is not the God of the Bible.…
— Billy Graham
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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
— Zebulon Pike
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I think Bute would have to face off with the Super Six Champion to prove that he's the best Super Middleweight. You come out of…
— Andre Ward
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
— Andre Gide
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The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.
— James A. Baldwin
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When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him if he can…
— Emanuel Lasker
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Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.
— Sherwood Boehlert
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We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
— C.S. Lewis
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Innovative people have always been in high demand. Help those around you to develop that “never-say-die” attitude by developing it yourself. Make a decision, today,…
— Bob Proctor
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Rest is so necessary for the health of our minds and bodies, and often so difficult to achieve due to the many demands placed on…
— Pope Francis
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This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most…
— Felix Mendelssohn
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Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
— Maria Montessori
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When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to…
— George Barna
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[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we…
— Michel Foucault
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The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which…
— Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
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