Top 100 Demand Quotes
#1. As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.
Dave Morris
#2. The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#3. 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 rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.
Clare Balding
#4. I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.
Terry Teachout
#5. What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.
Dan Webster
#6. In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.
Linda Darling-Hammond
#7. For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
Nic Pizzolatto
#8. Those who decide to neglect this demand of life, cry through life.
Sunday Adelaja
#9. In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.
Sonny Perdue
#10. And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
Veronica Roth
#11. Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.
Gary Hamel
#12. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.
Charles Colson
#13. The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user
Eric S. Raymond
#15. We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.
Leonard Woodcock
#16. I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact.
Albert Einstein
#17. You have no one to please but yourself, and you should demand others accept you for who you are. Don't let anyone tell you you're not enough.
Terri Osburn
#18. Citizens continue to demand government help in fighting cybercrime, defending children from stalkers and bullies, and protecting consumers.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#19. What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.
Aleksandar Hemon
#20. We need mountains to climb, rivers to cross; we need obstacles to become stronger! Do not hesitate to wish for obstacles on your way! Demand for the obstacles!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.
Hannah Arendt
#22. Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.
Henry Rollins
#23. The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It's 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It's a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them.
Joe Nichols
#24. But I remain with Rennie because she too is stubborn, because love requires us to stubbornly imperil each other, to demand that which can't be given and to go on demanding it. Every romance is a war of philosophies; the stakes are the romance itself. And if one person wins, it's all over.
Robert Cohen
#25. 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
#26. I felt cheated and I decided to demand justice of the sultan.
Italo Calvino
#27. For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friends and acting like an immature dipshit.
Drew Magary
#28. I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.
Shaquille O'Neal
#29. We have taught a generation to feast and play but the times demand we fast and pray.
Lou Engle
#31. In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.
Thomas Malthus
#32. Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#33. There are billions of gods in the world. They swarm as thick as herring roe. Most of them are too small to see and never get worshipped, at least by anything bigger than bacteria, who never say their prayers and don't demand much in the way of miracles.
Terry Pratchett
#34. The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.
Ellis Peters
#35. Well don't demand the spotlight if you can't handle the attention.
Melissa Hill
#36. I believe immigration reform is a commitment of President Obama's government, especially since it gives him a chance to respond to the great demand expressed by U.S. Hispanic voters.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#37. Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.
Benjamin Disraeli
#38. The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
Midge Decter
#39. Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies and high income taxes on the larger incomes are extraordinarily popular with the masses, who do not have to pay them.
Ludwig Von Mises
#40. The same politicians who demand the abolition of all impediments to the mobility of goods and services have been busily erecting mighty barriers to rebuff an accompanying wave of human beings. In
Francis Wheen
#41. America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
Barack Obama
#42. I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.
Rich Robinson
#43. With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.
Jill Abramson
#44. I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#45. Infrastructure projects create a lot of demand for material, services and manpower. It is a chain reaction; if the infrastructure growth slows down, it will hit overall demand. The supply side has to keep increasing to sustain growth.
Jamshyd Godrej
#46. Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.
Lucy Grealy
#47. We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#48. It is a living. It is enough. I am free. The nights are long and quiet, the mornings cool and bright, I live with the sun, the moon, and the stars. The air is fresh where I am, and there is no one to hurry me or to demand this or that of me.
Louis L'Amour
#49. If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.
Sandra Lee
#50. No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded.
Ryan Holmes
#51. The desire from those abroad to join our ranks is overwhelming. Tens of millions have applied for the limited amount of diversity visas available every year, illustrating the demand and need to maintain this vital path to American citizenship.
Cedric Richmond
#52. These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.
R.H. Blyth
#53. I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.
Francois Truffaut
#54. Reconciliation does not demand that one side surrender to the other. The simple, mutual recognition that mistakes were made is in itself a closing of the divide.
Steven Erikson
#55. As the Nasdaq soared in 1999 and early 2000, demand for many offerings far exceeded the supply of shares available at the initial offering price.
Alex Berenson
#56. You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.
Bryan Stevenson
#57. A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.
William Baldwin
#58. But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, 'deficit-financed government spending,' and 'the animal spirits of the spendthrift' in the service of boosting 'consumption demand' ... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?
Ilana Mercer
#59. The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
Andy Grove
#60. In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.
John Fusco
#61. I feel this urge to demand you get up and get your shit together. To tell you that whatever grief I see floating in your eyes is not your fault. That we all make mistakes, but we all have to move forward and survive.
Ryanne Hawk
#62. God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot with random people, that we lose ourselves and turn from all that is not him. God needs nothing, asks nothing, and demands nothing, like the stars. It is a life with God which demands these things.
Annie Dillard
#63. The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
#64. The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
Hannah Arendt
#65. Hobbies that demand skill, habits that set goals and limits, personal interests, and especially inner discipline help to make leisure what it is supposed to be - a chance for re-creation.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#66. An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#67. I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
Ben Lindsey
#68. We have let Eros mean slavery, but Eros also has the power to set us free. We must demand the right to depict women's lives as we know them, not as we might like them to be. We must stop applying political prescriptions to creativity.
Erica Jong
#69. That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Bill Watterson
#70. To meet the huge consumer demand for fish, the industry can no longer rely on hunting wild fish. Now we are doing to fish what was done to wild cows, sheep, goats, chickens, and ducks thousands of years ago: we are confining them in holding pens.
Sharon Gannon
#71. The self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#72. Great accountability is nothing more and nothing less than having the courage to demand that the people who work for you use their strengths in a responsible way. Learning
Jonathan Raymond
#73. When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.
Oliver Goldsmith
#74. Well, do you want her help or not? Rylan asked impatiently. And then Damian finally spoke. Rylan, I demand you apologize to Alexa at once. That is no way to talk to my fiancee.
Your what? In his shock, Rylan didn't even attempt to hide the half horror, half jealousy on his face or in his voice.
Sara B. Larson
#75. Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
Hermann Hesse
#76. Sadly enough... it is a characteristic of our age, that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much: comfortable, smooth gods.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#77. I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.
Charles Edison
#78. So this is the dance, it seems to me: to be the kind of host who honors the needs of the people who gather around his or her table, and to be the kind of guest who comes to the table to learn, not to demand.
Shauna Niequist
#79. 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 the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.
Bill Vaughan
#80. Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.
Craig Bruce
#81. Having seen you naked, I should demand that the only thing you wear in my presence from now on are these earrings. Anything else is superfluous.
Sylvain Reynard
#82. Why do the people think so little of death?
Because the rulers demand too much of life.
Therefore the people take death lightly.
Laozi
#83. Why is it so? If live is a gift, all that belongs to and is intrinsic to life is going to be a gift. You can wait for it, you can be receptive to it, you can remain in a surrendered mood, waiting, patient, but you cannot demand, and you cannot force.
Rajneesh
#84. George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.
Will Rogers
#85. Only by our incessant efforts is the demand for infinite, or unrhythmical, change kept up.
C.S. Lewis
#86. You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.
Peter Diamandis
#87. Never give people options, just give them simple directives. Don't beg or demand, just tell them how things are.
Salla Simukka
#88. Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
Julie Bishop
#89. The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your health, wealth, and happiness and demand that God 'follow through' as promised. God is not limited to the words of Scripture. God is still speaking.
Mel White
#90. 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
#91. I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#92. DEMAND, PURCHASE & USE LOW CARBON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. MAKE LOW CARBON SEXY!
Christiana Figueres
#93. You cannot make a demand on your life that exceeds your belief about it. Your belief is creating a personal law. It's not the truth, but a lie believed will act like a law until it's neutralized.
Derek Rydall
#94. Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.
Paul Craig Roberts
#96. All of those who ask for, request or demand a title of this book will be asked to return it immediately.
Theodore Ficklestein
#98. Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.
Nate Silver
#99. Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#100. The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
Robert A. Heinlein
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