Quotes About Making Demands

#1. Strippers. Get them a job, then an apartment, buy some clothes, feed them nice dinners, and then they get culture and start making demands. They were an expensive habit, but one he could not break.

John Grisham

#2. So you're making demands, are you? Well, let's hear them."
"I want unlimited access."
"Now that sounds interesting. To what, exactly?

Amy Plum

#3. Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor.

Saint Augustine

#4. When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

Simon Sinek

#5. LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.

Jacque Fresco

#6. They come in injured and mangled, we put them back together, then they stand in my halls making demands. A thankless lot to be sure.

Kristen Britain

#7. Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

Siri Hustvedt

#8. Places of genius challenge us. They are difficult. They do not earn their place in history with ethnic restaurants or street festivals, but by provoking us, making demands of us. Crazy, unrealistic, beautiful demands.

Eric Weiner

#9. They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Jodi Picoult

#10. Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.

Nick Rahall

#11. Life is a blessing remeber to stop and take a breath every once in a while or it will pass you by.

Adele Tack

#12. Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

Doris Lessing

#13. Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back the scope of our ambition or the scale of our investment. While our opportunities are greater than ever, we also face new competitors, faster-moving markets and new customer demands.

Steve Ballmer

#14. If there's one quality I hate in a woman, it's modesty. Besides making me, with my trombone mouth, feel vaguely uncouth, I think it's a chickenshit response to the demands of the marketplace, or the universe, not that I can tell them apart.

Emily Carter

#15. For what is religion if not a kind of madness, and what is madness without a touch of religion?

James W. Robertson

#16. When you meet someone
so different from yourself,
in a good way,
you don't even have to kiss
to have fireworks go off.

Lisa Schroeder

#17. If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#18. In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Iris Murdoch

#19. Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

Martha Stewart

#20. Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.

Helen Clark

#21. Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

Albert Einstein

#22. Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but ... many, following no fixed aim, shifting and ... dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course.

Seneca.

#23. High demands and expectations without skill development, encouragement or the feeling of a "win" will lead to resentment. Demanding perfection is exhausting on the part of the person making the demands and on the person of whom the perfection is demanded.

Daniel Bates

#24. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

Barack Obama

#25. I got a response from the front office of the division, 'Risky. Dangerous. Won't work.

David E. Hoffman

#26. Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance.

Roxane Gay

#27. I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

John Adams

#28. I don't think leadership demands 'yes' or 'no' answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

#29. The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

H.L. Mencken

#30. Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

Rick Santorum

#31. Never say goodbye" he demands. His smile fades. "I'm making my own Rules, Never say goodbye, that's rule number one

Rachel Robinson

#32. Revised regulations will never suppress federal workplace retaliation; nor will it cure the inaction of an EEOC official when justice demands fair, prompt and judicious decision-making.

Tanya Ward Jordan

#33. My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

Shirley Knight

#34. Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and averageness.

Gillian Flynn

#35. The McDonald brothers were simply not on my wavelength at all. I was obsessed with the idea of making McDonald's the biggest and the best. They were content with what they had; they didn't want to be bothered with more risks and more demands.

Ray Kroc

#36. I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

Mariah Carey

#37. It wasn't the tequila and oxy. You really are that fucking gorgeous.

Adrian Phoenix

#38. Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

Graham Kendrick

#39. The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

Gertrude Atherton

#40. There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Simone Weil

#41. Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Eric Zorn