Demand famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.
-- Adam Kluger -
Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)
-- Adolf Hitler -
Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
-- Adolf Loos -
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.
-- African Spir -
The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness
-- African Spir -
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
-- Ahmet Necdet Sezer -
God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.
-- Al Capone -
All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.
-- Al Capone -
When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.
-- Al Gore -
Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
-- Alan Autry -
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
-- Alan Bradley -
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
-- Alan Hirsch -
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
-- Albert Camus -
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
-- Albert Camus -
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.
-- Albert Camus -
Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.
-- Albert Mohler -
I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
-- Albert Oehlen -
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
-- Aldo Leopold -
I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position.
-- Alexander Kotov -
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and material good.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
-- Alexander Pope -
To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.
-- Alexander Shulgin -
Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
-- Alice S Rossi -
Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.
-- Alois Podhajsky -
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
-- Andre Gide -
Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.
-- Andrew Forrest -
The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors' money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn't change that, as we have seen.
-- Andy Grove -
The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
-- Andy Grove -
Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.
-- Ann Bridge -
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos...
-- Anne Fadiman -
There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter -
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
-- Anthony Giddens -
The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.
-- Antoine Destutt de Tracy -
The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, so what’s wrong with THAT? Isn’t that the way any master plan should work? Doesn’t the public deserve - nay, demand - such despotism?
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
-- Aristotle -
Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.
-- Arlen Specter -
I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.
-- Art Garfunkel -
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
-- Arthur Erickson -
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
-- Arthur Honegger -
Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.
-- Artur Schnabel -
Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!
-- Arturo Toscanini -
The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
-- August Bournonville -
It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
-- Bainbridge Colby -
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
-- Barbara Mertz -
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.
-- Baroness Orczy -
The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.
-- Bell Hooks -
The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
-- Ben Bernanke -
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
-- Ben Lindsey -
Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
-- Bergen Evans -
Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
-- Bernard Crick -
Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
-- Bernard Crick -
Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
-- Bernard Lonergan -
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
-- Beryl Markham -
Take a stand and command to demand what's grand.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.
-- Bill Hybels -
If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.
-- Bill Kovach -
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
-- Bill McCollum -
Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.
-- Bob Proctor -
There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.
-- Brad Thor -
Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.
-- Brent L. Top -
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
-- Brian Eno -
There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
-- Brian Mulroney -
Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.
-- Brian Tracy -
There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it on a screen because a screen never gives you the entire picture.
-- Bruno Maag -
This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.
-- Byron Dorgan -
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 -
Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved.
-- C. Rajagopalachari -
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.
-- C. S. Lewis -
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.
-- Candace Bushnell -
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence
-- Carl Sagan -
Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.
-- Carol Berg -
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
-- Caroline Knapp -
Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.
-- Carre Otis -
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt -
They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
-- Carter G. Woodson
