Demanded Quotes
320 quotes by 247 authors
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation…
— Bono
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I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about…
— Piers Anthony
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Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The success of the '86 movie with Brandon Lee demanded some kind of continuation. Plus, I had always contemplated a modern version.
— David Carradine
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I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body,…
— Phillip Lopate
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Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to…
— Abraham Lincoln
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One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight…
— Michael Josephson
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Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
— Edward Abbey
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The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display, but from whom…
— Jean Larteguy
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand…
— Toni Morrison
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[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently…
— Hudson Gurney
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you…
— William Faulkner
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The Community Relations Service would be another pro-civil rights Federal agency attempting to make people do what the policy of the Federal Government demanded that…
— John Sparkman
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We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure…
— Min Zhou
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The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best…
— Dean Dillon
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Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.
— Ann Curry
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