Demand Quotes - Page 42

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we haven't done enough - and then demand more.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

If, as consumers, we can change our mindset so that we see gnarled, twisted, lumpy or otherwise imperfect produce as beautiful, we can create demand, change the system and ultimately help feed the world.

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

Since for me moral demands necessarily flow from human psychology, I don't think we can be obliged to do something that we are not motivated in any way to do. In other words, I'm an "internalist" about morality.

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

None of the bands I'm in demand constant touring, so I'm able to do a bunch of things.

Every story has its demands.

The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities.

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.