Top 98 Quotes About Demanding More
#1. Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.
Greg Gutfeld
#2. It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services.
Jerry A. Webman
#3. She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.
Jean M. Auel
#4. A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.
David Letterman
#5. To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
Adam Davidson
#6. Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.
Richard Koch
#7. One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.
Michael Josephson
#8. No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.
James Morcan
#9. Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.
Celinda Lake
#10. The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#11. The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.
Paul Di Filippo
#12. It's not reality that's abusing you, it's you demanding more than it can give.
Hyam Yared
#13. When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.
Luanne Rice
#14. As soon as people become a little less fearful, they will also begin demanding more freedom.
Natan Sharansky
#15. Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.
Pamela Paul
#16. Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
Phyllis Schlafly
#17. Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.
Dean Karnazes
#18. It's not about government telling people what to do ... It's about each of us, in our own families, in our own communities, standing up and demanding more for our kids. And it's about companies like Walmart answering that call.
Michelle Obama
#19. And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is rare in any man, even more so in a leader.
Geraldine Brooks
#20. In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.
Barbara Kellerman
#21. That's what women specialize in-demanding every scrap of humanity we have. Our hearts, our souls and our balls. You can fight it, my friend, but I've learned it's a whole lot smarter to hand it all over quietly. They're going to win in the end and if you resist, you only end up having to beg more.
Susan Mallery
#22. When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible.
Bryant McGill
#23. Do you know that the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated, since it is a necessity prejudiced in its own favor. ...There is plenty more life demanding to be born. ...He was worth nothing to the world. The supply is too large.
Jack London
#24. People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.
Charles R. Swindoll
#25. It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.
Page Smith
#26. From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
Mark Strand
#27. I had learned in the last two years that the more demanding the basic needs of self-preservation grow, the closer one comes to nature.
Jacques Sandulescu
#28. Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.
Eduardo Galeano
#29. Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more ... It can completely twist you ... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.
Kangana Ranaut
#30. I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.
Helmut Jahn
#31. The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#32. For your love I have uprooted all my desires, I am no more demanding ...
Seema Gupta
#33. Is this true? Those who had world' enough, that is, those engaged in a demanding daily vocation, were short of time while those without regular obligations had more than sufficient time, but no world?
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
#34. The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor - represented an effort to meet the rising voices demanding a more aggressive government approach to the collapse of national prosperity.
Robert Dallek
#35. All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.
Sophie Marceau
#36. Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
David Macaulay
#37. Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.
Alex D. Linz
#38. It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.
Jamie Bamber
#39. Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices?
Lysa TerKeurst
#40. We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new ... Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope.
Anthony Esolen
#41. When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.
Harold S. Kushner
#42. The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.
Duane Elgin
#43. The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.
James Baldwin
#44. What makes some cognitive operations more demanding and effortful than others? What outcomes must we purchase in the currency of attention? What can System 2 do that System 1 cannot? We now have tentative answers to these questions.
Daniel Kahneman
#45. The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
May Sarton
#47. The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.
Primo Levi
#49. I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.
Jeff Bridges
#50. Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.
Cher
#51. Christianity and Islam are concerned with the idea of justice, which can turn into political justice, social justice, economical justice, and so on. Buddhism is not so concerned with the idea of rights. There is more talk of responsibility than of demanding rights.
Pankaj Mishra
#52. I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.
Lee Friedlander
#53. More kids are finding real sports too demanding.
Leonard Sax
#54. Still there are some, braver and more valiant than their peers, who face their demons head on, staring defiantly into the shadows, demanding forgiveness.
Rebecca Harris - Be The Death Of Me
#55. You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.
Montel Williams
#57. Nostalgia is a fragile and tender anguish, basically different, more intimate, more human than the other pains we had endured till then [ ... ] Nostalgia is a limpid and clean pain, but demanding; it permeates every minute of the day, permits no other thoughts and induces a need for escape.
Primo Levi
#59. But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.
Steve Spurrier
#60. I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
Carlos Ghosn
#61. This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.
Kim Wright
#62. I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.
Janet Fitch
#63. I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.
Rory Bremner
#64. An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.
Marina Tsvetaeva
#65. I explained as much as I knew of the seal-cutter's way of jadoo; but her argument was much more simple: "The magic that is always demanding gifts is no true magic," said she.
Rudyard Kipling
#66. What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.
Amanda Hocking
#67. I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.
Joan Lunden
#68. As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.
Nina Fedoroff
#69. The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
Norbert Wiener
#70. The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
Sinclair Lewis
#71. With aging comes physical and emotional challenge. We cannot seem to get as much done in an hour as we did in youth. And it is harder to be patient with others, and they seem more demanding.
Henry B. Eyring
#72. Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
David Walliams
#73. Third, it puts more small-scale capitalists out of business. They can do nothing but join the working class. 'Thus', says Marx, 'the forest of uplifted arms demanding work becomes ever thicker, while the arms themselves become ever thinner.
Anonymous
#74. For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has led to unsustainable fishing and economic practices. If we instead ask the ocean what it is willing to supply, we engage in an inherently more sustainable relationship.
Barton Seaver
#75. Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. Love required accepting and meant changing oneself rather than demanding change of others.
Jo Goodman
#76. In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.
Helmut Jahn
#77. I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.
Billy Collins
#78. In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
Sam Kean
#79. Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.
Frederick Lenz
#80. Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.
Richard Avedon
#81. You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
Hans Vestberg
#82. As consumers we get more demanding all the time. We want better quality. We want it faster. And cheaper. Plus, we want more choices. Whoever comes along that can satisfy all these 'wants' gets our business.
Price Pritchett
#83. Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended. It's more intimidating to sing in front of smaller crowds. The buck stops with me.
Timothy B. Schmit
#84. Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding - not wistful.
Elliott Abrams
#85. Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
Alexander Pope
#86. I felt confused, and also inadequate; whatever he was asking or demanding, it was beyond me. this was the first time a man would expect more from me than i was capable of giving, but it wouldn't be the last.
Margaret Atwood
#87. If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran
Virgil Goode
#88. I sometimes think the theatre is more demanding because it requires things you don't have in films, like it requires you to make the people in the front row believe you and not look an idiot to them while the people right at the back can hear you.
Michael Gambon
#90. But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God's little lambs are protected and nourished. They know they are not abandoned; they are loved. And the world becomes a little more like heaven as a result.
Wess Stafford
#92. I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.
Johnny Carson
#93. Engel & Voelkers has a long-standing reputation for providing excellence to a demanding clientele. Now we provide even more by offering our technologically-savvy customers the most up-to-the-minute data on homes, from listing prices to photos - all at their fingertips.
Anthony Hitt
#94. My choices are rejections, since there is no other way,
but what I reject is more numerous,
denser, more demanding than before.
A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.
Wislawa Szymborska
#95. The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.
Taryn Simon
#96. I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.
Bill Murray
#97. I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we're drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.
Billy Collins
#98. The solution is not that people need to major in marketing in college, but that their liberal education should be more structured and demanding. Majors should have some required sequence of basic courses, as in economics.
Fareed Zakaria
