Demand Quotes

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

I can still feel you, Eva. Still taste you. I’ve been hard since you left, through two meetings and one teleconference. You’ve got the advantage, state your demands.

Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands.

All these stipulations, I'm surprised [David Haye ] didn't ask me to carry him to that seat. The demands are unbelievable, my demands were let me pick my own gloves.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

To air one's views gratuitously, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

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.

You might not believe it, but there are times when I feel the TV and radio shows demand more of me than those Sunday afternoon games.

There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, 'Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.' They go, 'Eww, gross!' But we demand it.

To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage.

Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Remember that life develops what it demands - the toughest path creates the strongest warrior. Pray not for a lighter load, but for stronger shoulders.

And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change.

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

Note that there was no claim for these attacks [on 9/11]. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror.

No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.

In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.

By 2030 the demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences. Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by 2030 and for fresh water by 30%, as the population tops 8.3 billion

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.

Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?

Donald Trump has been nothing but gracious, and a gentleman and a wonderful mentor and boss to me, and to other women. So that's all, that would be my personal choice; not a demand on me.

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear..