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Quotes About Demands

Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.
~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. As if a man could choose not only his wife but his wife's husband! Or as if he were bound to provide charms for his posterity in his own person!
~ George Eliot
I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.
~ Roma Downey
We must address the real threats of climate change in communities of color and across the Global South, the forced expulsion of Black people in Europe and the Americas, and the socioeconomic demands of young people throughout the world.
~ Cori Bush
I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.
~ Russell Crowe
I am not an actress who demands for only business class tickets.
~ Pranitha Subhash
Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.
~ Lionel Barrymore
Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.
~ Cher
Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.
~ Merlin Mann
The physical surroundings of most individuals, left to their own choice, vary little wherever they happen to live. No doubt that was the explanation. I was in the presence of one of those triumphs of mind over matter, like the photographer's power of imposing his own personal visual demands on the subject photographed.
~ Anthony Powell
The exercise of powerful 'charm' is, in any case, more appreciated in public than in private life, exacting, as it does, almost as heavy demands on the receiver as the transmitter, demands often too onerous to be weighed satisfactorily against the many other, all too delicate, requirements of married life.
~ Anthony Powell
the sombre demands of the past becoming at times almost suffocating in their insistence.
~ Anthony Powell
When we create an environment inside our minds that has too many intense and simultaneous demands upon us, of course we'll feel overloaded. But we also have the power to change this by focusing on what we can control and dealing with it a step at a time.
~ Anthony Robbins
All the bakers had banded together. They said he had to take back the workers he had fired and meet all three of their demands: (1) A ruble raise; (2) Sleeping-at-home rights; (3) No more knocking out teeth. It
~ Sholom Aleichem
The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.
~ Shulamith Firestone
An inability to meet the real demands of love is one of the essential characteristics of neurosis; the patients are dominated by the opposition of reality and fantasy. They will flee from what they long for most intensely in their fantasies if they encounter it in real life, and they are most likely to abandon themselves to fantasies when they no longer need to fear their realization.
~ Sigmund Freud
They are clean to the far more brutally restrictive demands of ISO number 1, which permits only 10 particles of just one-tenth of a micron per cubic meter, and no particles of any size larger than that. A human being existing in a normal environment swims in a miasma of air and vapor that is five million times less clean.
~ Simon Winchester
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.
~ Sophocles
Friendship is a tension. It makes delicate demands.
~ Sophocles
It is the dead Not the living, who make the longest demands: We die for ever...
~ Sophocles
Civilized life exacts its toll.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
If you don't have a lot of energy, and you are called upon to give to your youngest several times a minute (preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say), you quickly exhaust your reservoir of good will toward your spouse.
~ John Medina
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
~ John Naisbitt