Demand Quotes

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama

Change, Time, Government

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health, Tired, Long

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Confucius

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Greatest, Loved, Arrogant

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom, Thought, Speech

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
Barack Obama

Put, Last, Economy

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard

Men, Freedom, Thought

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Happiness, Give

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell

Society, Human, Practice

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
Chris Christie

Today, Sacrifice, Country

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell

Natural, Vice, Certainty

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

Teach, Parrot, Terms

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
Roger Babson

Good, Health, Money

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Women, Respect

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Calvin Coolidge

Through, Almost, Mass

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
W. Clement Stone

Work, Desire, Enthusiasm

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Positive, Succeed, Qualities

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith

Love, Men, Country

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Samuel Butler

Life, Money, Women

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
Richard Armour

Marriage, Husband, Wife

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard

Funny, Revenge, Children

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman

Life, Love, After

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton

Simple, Thought, Made

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
Steve Martin

Nothing, Done, Popular

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
Henry Miller

Good, Speak, Write

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings

Truth, Excess, Scarce

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
John L. Lewis

Future, America, Thoughtful

People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
Rosa Parks

Tired, Made, After

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