Demand Quotes

Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.

Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today.

If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.

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

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

I'm totally normal. I think it's obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We're not spoiled.

I am personally against abortion on demand, but I believe it is very clear that there must be legislation brought in that will deal with what is becoming simply a mish-mash of approaches

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

All professions are... filled with demands.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.

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.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

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.

Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do.

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.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is.

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

Great interests demand great safeguards.

If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

A broad and joined-up approach is needed if we are to match human demands with the capacity of the planet

And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.

It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.