Quotes by category:Demand

Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment. by Mason Cooley

Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

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If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.

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Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions... by Mason Cooley

Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.

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We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

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The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

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Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

Maximilien Robespierre

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The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

Meghan O'Rourke

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The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea.

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We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

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If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

Melina Marchetta

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Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it. by Mason Cooley

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

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Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures an... by Meredith Willson

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

Meredith Willson

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Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.

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Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your... by Merlin Mann

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

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It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authori... by Meryl Streep

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

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Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations. by Mason Cooley

Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations.

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People who demand signs never believe them when they come. by Michael Card

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

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The intensity with which young people live demands that they "bla... by Maya Angelou

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

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I have argued tirelessly, nearly endlessly, in so many books, about the need for the social, the economic reconstruction of society. The demand that people be present themselves, that they contribute to the reorganization of society, that they own up to their own complicity in a system from which they derive benefit and advantage, often without acknowledgement, and the discomfort, the uncomfortable way in which that must be acknowledged.

Michael Eric Dyson

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