Demand Quotes

There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you.

Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.

If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough.

First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.

When God demands more of you, it's because He sees more IN you

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.

I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.

When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.

What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

Because life constantly poses challenges, living demands courage

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

The spiritual substance from which comes all visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it.

The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.