Quotes by Demand I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity. Maria Callas callasdignitydemand After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand! Maria Semple demandwork-outnaps There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people. Marian Wright Edelman demandsoundpeople I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable. Marie Calloway commodityvaluabledemand None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach inconsideratedemandcomfort The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work. Marcus Aurelius cucumbersdemandlaughing Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. Maria Montessori demandinstructionchildren There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach demandhonestfriendship This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response of anyone--other people's reactions, their emotions, their criticisms, their demands--but somehow they don't reciprocate. Maybe they can't. Maybe they lack the gift, if it is one. Margaret Atwood demandcriticismpeople Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit. Marjorie Benton Cooke demandyouthwinning Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself. Mahatma Gandhi dignitydemandmen God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of a favor, but uncoerced love. Mark Galli demandfavorsdoe The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love. Mark Hart demandholidaychallenges Sometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up. Mark Hart holinessdemandsometimes Legal land surveyors are few and far between and can find themselves in demand. Mark Mason surveyorsdemandland The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it. Mark Steyn demandagecountry Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing. Marshall B. Rosenberg demandlabelsfeelings Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation. Mahatma Gandhi demanddemocracypatient Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes. Marquis de Sade demandpassionlust This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands. Marshall B. Rosenberg demandcommunicationpeople«2930313233343536373839»
