Demand Quotes

Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.

Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.

The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it.

I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.

I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

If we blend efficiently democracy, demographic demand & demand, I believe that there will be a Vasco Da Gama on every street who will come searching for India.

I often have discussions with people who demand pluralism and much more. One can discuss these issues, but only within the framework of the law.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.

God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.

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

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.

The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry.

Each time demands its own kind of film.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Television has its opportunities. It allows you more hours; there's more demand, and it keeps you working. If you can do something innovating and fresh, it can be very rewarding.

Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.

Science demands patience.

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.