Top 100 Demand It Quotes
#1. We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
Francis Spellman
#2. I've never shot any man who didn't demand it, one way or another."
-Lynx
Janelle Taylor
#3. We want what we can't have, even when we have no right to demand it.
Brandon Sanderson
#4. You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.
Wesley Eisold
#5. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.
Eric Schmidt
#6. Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you will have to take it; when you demand it, you will not get it; and when you are experienced, you ought to be useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#7. Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
Wendell Berry
#8. It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
Meryl Streep
#9. That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.
Meryl Streep
#10. What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
Cesar Chavez
#11. I'm really proud of an independent movie called 'Angel's Perch' that you can get now on demand. It's a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it's a beautiful film.
Ashley Jones
#12. The real power in Ottawa, as in Washington, is in the executive branch. At the White House, there are daily briefings for reporters. In Ottawa, there is no such daily access. The media doesn't demand it, and as a result, major powerbrokers remain virtually anonymous.
Lawrence Martin
#13. It is a kind of self-projection of our sins when we insist on other people becoming good. In reality, we wish to become good, but because we are unable to, we demand it of others and insist on this.
Porphyrios Bairaktaris Of Kafsokalivia
#14. How does individual randomness turn into collective regularity? Easy - the odds demand it. The
Anonymous
#15. How can it be men would put up with such an arrangement?'
'Why do some people demand it of women but not of men? It is just another way of doing things. As my father would have said, folk will have their customs according to their nature and their surroundings.
Kate Elliott
#17. If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man
not to make any invidious comparison
is always sold to the institution which makes him rich ... Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.
Mark Steyn
#19. Who the hell do you think you are?" your darkest interior voices will demand. "It's funny you should ask," you can reply. "I'll tell you who I am: I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a constituent of this universe. I have invisible spirit benefactors who believe in me, and who labor
Elizabeth Gilbert
#20. The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.
Sun Tzu
#21. Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.
John Amos Comenius
#23. When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
W. Clement Stone
#24. In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation - the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially - hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.
Friedrich Engels
#25. I am not your kind," Vos said, his voice thick. "I do not feed off vengeance." Truth was quiet. It did not need to shout or to demand. It simply existed. "I am a Jedi.
Christie Golden
#26. There must be reserves
except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.
Margaret Deland
#27. The ordinary love is a demand, the real love is a sharing. It knows nothing of demand; it knows the joy of giving.
Osho
#28. Ones there is a demand, it is our obligation to supply the answers, give the right responses for us to fully enjoy life
Sunday Adelaja
#29. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.
Frederick Douglass
#30. Pritkin muttered something that sounded fairly vicious. "My clothes are warded! Even if I wished to accede to your demand, it would not work on them."
"Then strip."
"I beg your pardon?" He sounded almost polite suddenly, as if he believed he couldn't possibly have heard right.
Karen Chance
#31. Wind and solar power, energy efficient buildings, cars that go farther on a tank of gas, and other solutions can fight climate change. I know America can get on a more sustainable path - we just have to raise our voices and demand it.
Frances Beinecke
#32. Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
Hans Haacke
#34. for Arendt, if you do not respond adequately when the times demand it, you show a lack of imagination and attention that is as dangerous as deliberately committing an abuse.
Sarah Bakewell
#35. We change when circumstances necessitate it; we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#36. Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it.
Glenn Beck
#37. You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
Charles Kettering
#38. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will";
Robert A. Caro
#39. History teaches that the overwhelming majority of elected officials follow movement builders outside government when it comes to the new and risky ... Once you recognize it, demand it and reward it, it will happen.
Eric Schneiderman
#40. Power beyond great power allows honesty and compels those in such a society to demand it.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#41. Why, then?" I demand. "It is because, Miss Faber," says Mr. Peel, smiling one of his very rare smiles. "It is because you can swim." What?
L.A. Meyer
#42. It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.
P.G. Wodehouse
#43. I'm waiting for you to fucking demand it of me. I don't want you to ask, and I sure as hell don't want you to beg. I want you to fucking demand that I kiss you.
Sawyer Bennett
#44. If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.
Melina Marchetta
#45. With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.
Lois Capps
#46. Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
Bertrand Russell
#47. Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option.
Stephanie Laurens
#48. You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
Annie Dillard
#49. She'd made those choices out of fear, and she wasn't afraid anymore. From now on, if something was important to her, she would demand it. Because the truth was that she belonged anywhere she wanted to be, and she was beautiful just for being brave.
Victoria Helen Stone
#50. Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.
Mark Warner
#51. Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#52. People don't demand a say in how they're governed because they want to be rich. They demand it when they already are rich and crave something more.
Ramez Naam
#53. The reason this will happen, and happen soon, is that learners will demand it to the point that management, teachers and administrators can no longer resist. The workers of the Games Generations will no longer accept, attend, or do training that is boring. So
Marc Prensky
#54. What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#56. I don't want your lying kindness. Sure, you'll smile and be so sweet to me that I'll trust you, but the minute I don't give you everything you want the instant you demand it, you'll turn on me and try to crush me. You're just like everyone else in the world. No one matters but you. (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#57. Today is the anniversary of my husband's death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave.
Sara Sheridan
#58. Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.
George Weinberg
#59. The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.
Eric Schlosser
#60. For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, they not only are understanding it better, which is a form of power, but just by predicting what is going to happen, I think they feel a real sense of affirmation and self-worth.
Malcolm Gladwell
#61. When you can dramatically lower the costs of connecting supply and demand, it changes not just the numbers, but the entire nature of the market.
Chris Anderson
#62. It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, The enterprise must demand it of him.
Peter Drucker
#63. And don't demand any sincerity from me, Milena. No one can demand it from me more than I myself and yet many things elude me, I'm sure, perhaps everything eludes me.
Franz Kafka
#64. Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.
Osho
#65. True love doesn't demand..It only loves.
Toba Beta
#66. Art that sells on production is bad art, essentially. It is art that is made to demand. It suits the public. The taste of the public is bad. The taste of the public is always bad. It is bad because it is not an individual expression, but merely a mania for assent, a mania to be 'in on it'.
Ezra Pound
#67. Want your obedience. I expect it - no, I demand it. I don't relish nor will I enjoy the idea of punishing you. So if you seek to bait me so that you enjoy the thrill of discipline, you're sure to be disappointed.
Maya Banks
#68. Claire, I don't want to lose that look. I promise, I'll never demand it again ... I don't want that. I want what I have today. I'm concerned that, when all my confessions are out - it'll be gone.
Anthony
Aleatha Romig
#69. I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.
Lee Daniels
#70. Family are people who never earn your respect or love but demand it nevertheless.
Greg Keyes
#71. Your loss, Elliot said to both of them, and shut the door.
That was love: Elliot couldn't command it, couldn't demand it. He could only leave the chill echoing place where it was not.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#72. Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.
Rick Warren
#73. Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a small bulb - it is bound to explode.
Sivananda Radha Saraswati
#74. There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, 'Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.' They go, 'Eww, gross!' But we demand it.
Brad Pitt
#75. There is enough oil out there for world demand. It is true that a lot of what's driving oil prices up right now is not the lack of supply. There's enough supply.
Barack Obama
#76. Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.
Natalie Goldberg
#77. Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself.
William Petty
#78. And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
Veronica Roth
#79. The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;
and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!
Fanny Burney
#81. It wants, but does not demand. It asks, but doesn't take. It gives, and pleads for more. It is filled with desire, but also curiosity, and it teaches me that a kiss should come gift wrapped, not stripped naked
Ellen Hopkins
#82. The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
Robert A. Heinlein
#83. Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.
Paul Craig Roberts
#84. Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.
Virginia Postrel
#85. Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.
Terri Sewell
#86. 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 even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.
Mary-Louise Parker
#88. Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.
John Gray
#89. When life takes something that is yours, you have every right to demand it back!
Megan Squires
#90. It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we haven't done enough - and then demand more.
David Limbaugh
#91. Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
#92. I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
Scott Walker
#93. Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.
Cesar Chavez
#94. You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.
Robin Hobb
#95. I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.
Tyler Cowen
#96. It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.
Edmund Ruffin
#97. If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.
Milarepa
#98. Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell
#99. We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why do this, you may ask? Because it'll be fun.
Rick Mercer
#100. What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'
Chelsea Clinton
