Demand Quotes - Page 28

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving [than we do to ask Him]. As much as we want God to explain himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.

In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with the future of every human being on the planet, every future human being, our children and grand children, and every other living species

One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.

Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.

A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.

...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police repression and the grower indifference to the workers' demands for recognition cannot go unheard so we're going to keep on struggling until we get that recognition.

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.

Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

I will meet the world's demands and win!

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

Why is there still so much pain and suffering being produced when there's so little demand for it?

Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which is gonna lead to more executive compensation than if you pay your employees less and try to take all the cream off of the top.

Power cedes nothing without a demand.

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.