Demand Quotes

2397 Demand quotes by 1748 unique authors

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads. — Lin Yutang
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few… — Larry McMurtry
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands… — Neil Postman
What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising… — Ayn Rand
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock... it will… — Michael Crichton
Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things;… — Lewis Mumford
Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services. — Heraclitus
The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. — Andy Grove
The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet… — Milton Friedman
To keep demands as much skill as to win. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation. — Richard M. Nixon
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the… — Aleister Crowley
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything… — Alvar Aalto
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style… — Rudolf Arnheim
We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits:… — Gale Norton
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or… — Indra Nooyi
People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand. — Ozzy Osbourne
The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In… — Keith Devlin
I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's… — Donna Leon
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for… — Gary Larson
The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage… — Nancy Pearcey
The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is… — Alan Parsons
I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or… — Mary-Louise Parker
In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people… — Pauley Perrette

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