Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.
Charles Williams

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
Alan Autry

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
Dag Hammarskjold

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
Elizabeth Janeway

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
Herbert Gold

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
Marquis de Sade

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
Lord Acton

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Henrik Ibsen

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
Jacques Ellul

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn Rand

My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.
Robin Hayes

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.
Rory Bremner

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.
Leroy Chiao

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
C. L. R. James