Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
Jacques Lacan

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
Ira Gershwin

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
Phyllis Schlafly

Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.
Walter F. Mondale

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
Mary Catherine Bateson

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Terry Pratchett

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Christopher Hitchens

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.
Jesse Helms

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
Martin Fleischmann

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
Joe Eszterhas

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.
Daniel Day-Lewis

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
Robin Morgan

Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.
David R. Ellis

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.
Javier Bardem

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.
Mary-Kate Olsen

We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
John Boehner

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
Bernie Ebbers

We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.
Nina Fedoroff

Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.
Alex D. Linz