Demanded Quotes

320 quotes by 247 authors

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory. — Jello Biafra
Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded. — Tzipi Livni
I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense… — John F. Kerry
There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego… — Walter Benjamin
Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded. — Henry A. Kissinger
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. — Margaret Fuller
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or… — Theodore Dreiser
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset, — Lars von Trier
If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time.… — Jeffrey Sachs
The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong… — Margaret Mead
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them,… — George Orwell
I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My… — Carre Otis
The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is… — James P. Hogan
James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an emperor. But, come… — Dan Aykroyd
So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of… — Paul Krugman
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual… — Marina Warner
Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed inspection as a means of creating confidence in its disarmament,… — Hans Blix
Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself… — Simone Weil
Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but… — Laozi

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