Demand Quotes - Page 33

Excellence demands that you be better than yourself.

The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by representatives of a benevolent collective; and then, in illusory harmony, they are reconciled with the general interest whose demands they had initially experienced as irreconcilable with their own.

Dont count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels liked to restrict causality to the chain of causes in an eternal material universe, pointing out that no supernatural cause was then necessary. Plausible, but still rather defensive. Today's skeptic can do better. In all likelihood, the universe is uncaused. It is random. It just is.

Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.

The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.

Effective education may also require co-opting old faculties to deal with new demands. . . Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun.

I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!

Demand candor from commanding officers, and weigh heavily their recommendations.

I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.

I really wanted to go to architecture school but the demands of playing D-1 Collegiate soccer just take over so I tried to empathize architecture as much as I could.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

Alpinism places unique demands on its practitioners.

The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.

The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a dinner: some may clamour for it and instantly demand a second helping, some are not interested, some decide they will try it once and then instantly vomit.

Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option.

The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile.

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.