Demand Quotes
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For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.
Paul Auster
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I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.
Jill Scott
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We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a system that's making us working harder, and isn't giving us satisfaction. We've got to sit down and decide what the hell we really want to be as human beings.
Paul R. Ehrlich
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I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
Bill Jay
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Art demands constant observation.
Vincent Van Gogh
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We [climbers] demonstrate in the most stunning way of all - at the risk of our lives - that there is no limit to the effort man can demand of himself. This quality is the basis of all human achievementit can never be proved enough. I consider that we climbers - that I - serve all humanity. We prove that there is no limit to what man can do.
Walter Bonatti
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
Carl Linnaeus
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Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
C. S. Lewis
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To air one's views gratuitously, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk.
William Strunk, Jr.
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The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
Chuck Klosterman
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Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in a free market: increased use of the product or service whose price is controlled, Reduced supply of the same product or service, quality deterioration, black markets.
Thomas Sowell
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We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.
Said Seyam
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Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.
Cary Grant
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With this information, in light of the increasing human demands on vegetation, it is my personal opinion that capping CO2 emissions or reducing them to some prior level would be akin to 'biting the hand that feeds us.
Keith E. Idso
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The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.
Mark Steyn
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We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.
Steve Largent
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A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.
Immanuel Kant
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I certainly am not alone in the world with this demand; I am in the best of company. Let it be said that no self-respecting people and no responsible government would be able to think or much less act differently in such a case. The world has already seen a great many wars lost in the past.
Adolf Hitler
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The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.
William C. Rhoden
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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
Brennan Manning
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The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.
Mortimer Zuckerman
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As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of writing; I think that's the word I'm looking for, rhythms of creativity which then, of course, become very intense. I think your writing then tends to be very intensified simply because there are other demands which seem equally important.
Wole Soyinka
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If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.
Bill Kovach
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Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it
Miguel Syjuco