They Demand Quotes
35 quotes by 33 authors
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that…
— Richard Armour
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When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life…
— Tom Robbins
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Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.
— Seth Godin
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Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must…
— Wafa Sultan
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Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life…
— Gerry Spence
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The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia.…
— Henry A. Wallace
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Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks…
— Che Guevara
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My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up…
— Robert M. Price
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Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because…
— Ivan Illich
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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man…
— Midge Decter
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I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or…
— Clare Balding
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If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how…
— Confucius
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Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a…
— Mark Strand
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Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a…
— Anatoli Boukreev
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People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.
— Helen Garner
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Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and…
— Bill Vaughan
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their…
— Beth Moore
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The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may…
— Stanley Tucci
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Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a…
— Neil Gaiman
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