Best Demanding Quotes
497 Demanding quotes by 438 unique authors
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
— Konrad Lorenz
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Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their…
— Barry Goldwater
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The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.
— David McCullough
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the…
— Walter Lippmann
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Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of…
— Henry Ford
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In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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So where did these cravings come from? I concluded it's the baby ordering in. Prenatal takeout. Even without ever being in a restaurant, fetuses develop…
— Paul Reiser
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Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their…
— Amory Lovins
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And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it,…
— Pat Condell
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To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who…
— Robert C. Murphy
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The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant…
— Murray Kempton
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What's more, sharia finance is another tool of Islamic separatism; instead of assimilating into American society, Muslims are demanding, and receiving, parallel financial institutions that…
— Robert Spencer
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You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the…
— Anton Chekhov
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Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
— George C. Marshall
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating…
— Peter Ackroyd
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How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization…
— Olof Palme
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Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith,…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible…
— Julia Cameron
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I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything…
— Tim Winton
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We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the…
— John Boehner
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food,…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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