Demand Quotes

There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you.

Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.

If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough.

First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.

When God demands more of you, it's because He sees more IN you

Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.

When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.

What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

Because life constantly poses challenges, living demands courage

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

The spiritual substance from which comes all visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it.

Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies. We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

Goat face is a horrible insult. My face is practically perfect in every way. In fact, from now on I demand to be called Beautiful Bryan.

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

We have taught a generation to feast and play but the times demand we fast and pray.

The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

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

You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.