Quotes About Demands

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana.

If a man acts in a purely mechanical way, reacting to external demands or instruction rather than in ways determined by his own interests and energies and power, "we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is."14

People put too much emphasis, too many demands, on courage, and they all put their own standards on it anyway

The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.

The problem is, lifestyle demands can quickly lock in place the personal resource allocation process.

Love makes its demands, and you listen. You can't bargain with it. You can't fight it. Not if it's really love.

Maybe freedom just demands too much of the average citizen. Too much personal responsibility. Too many opportunities for failure.

Greek Catholic Church, that mild communion whose demands on one's conscience are so small in comparison with the comforts it offers.

The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.

Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.

Immediately after the meetings at Valladolid, the potential co-leaders of the expedition presented a list of demands to the crown;

A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.

The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three.

Neither the discontent of party friends, nor the allurements constantly offered of confirmations of appointees conditions upon the avowal that suspensions have been made on party grounds alone, nor the threat proposed in the resolutions now before the Senate that no confirmations will be made unless the demands of that body are complied with, are sufficient to discourage or deter me from following in the way which I am convinced leads to better government for the people.

Supporting and publicising the campaigns of smaller unions pressures bosses to accept workers' demands.

Some people say that given the government's firm stance against genuine universal suffrage, our demands are impossible to achieve. But I believe activism is about making the impossible possible.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.

Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

I feel like when I listen to music nowadays, it's a lot of commands. It's a lot of demands. Do this dance, or feel like this. It's not like, 'how do you feel?'

But one truth does not displace another. Even apparently contradictory truths do not displace one another. Logic is far too coarse to make the subtle distinctions life demands.

The Law requires much, but offers no help in the carrying out of its requirements. The Lord Jesus requires just as much, yea more (Matt. 5:21–48). But what He requires from us, He Himself carries out in us. The Law makes demands and leaves us helpless to fulfill them; Christ makes demands, but He Himself fulfills in us the very demands He makes.

Let us remember that each time people treat us in an ill manner, speak evil of us, or make unreasonable demands of us, they are giving us opportunity to react as Christians.