Demand Quotes - Page 17

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries.

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.

If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

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.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

Those who are unprepared to demonstrate tolerance cannot expect or even demand tolerance for themselves.

Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

Art demands constant observation.

We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a set of memes that we adopt because of congruence with what we think we know. Science demands skepticism.

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

Hire people inspired to achieve something big over people who demand something big before they feel inspired.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

Change demands new learning.

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