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Quotes About Demand

Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?
~ Graham Swift
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.
~ Grant Morrison
Family are people who never earn your respect or love but demand it nevertheless.
~ Greg Keyes
Room service? Send up a larger room." [ A Night at the Opera ]
~ Groucho Marx
The crowd demands a god before everything else.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Like most art students, I expect I'll find that there is no demand for what I've learned so I'll teach other students so that one day they can teach as well.
~ Guy Bellamy
I mean it,' said Bosie seriously. 'I'd like to murder him, in cold blood.' 'Well, you can't, Bosie,' said Oscar, 'leastways, not tonight.' 'Why not?' demanded Bosie petulantly. 'It's Sunday, Bosie,' said Oscar, 'and a gentleman never murders his father on a Sunday. You should know that. Did they teach you nothing at Winchester?
~ Gyles Brandreth
The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.
~ James Joyce
When a demand for intelligent sympathy goes unanswered he is a too stern disciplinarian who blames himself for having offered a dullard an opportunity to participate in the warmer movement of a more highly organised life.
~ James Joyce
You are Lord Vader? Organa asked. Senator, Vader said, inclining his head slightly I demand to know why you've come to Alderaan. Senator, you are in no position to demand anything.
~ James Luceno
Everything wanting to contribute to my ulcer, Get in line and take a number!
~ James Patterson
Salte de mi oficina ahora! Puta!
~ James Patterson
Prove it," he said
~ James Patterson
keeping his pistol level. "The price is now $200 million.
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects, but unfortunately, the way that the business is, there's such a demand for new material on a consistent basis that it's nearly impossible to do that.
~ Jay DeMarcus
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more.
~ Jenny Zhang
Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.
~ Shiv Nadar
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token, action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes, and hopefully you can get a good balance of all of that stuff.
~ Stephen Lang
Very often, state utilities do not buy electricity even if they need it, as every unit purchased increases their losses.
~ Piyush Goyal
Los Angeles is a rich city; California is a rich state; the United States is a rich country. The money is out there, and Los Angeles teachers are demanding that it be spent where it belongs, on our kids.
~ Adam Conover
If Pakistan had not accepted the demand to stop cross-border infiltration and the United States had not conveyed to us Pakistan's guarantee to do so, then nothing could have stopped a war.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.
~ John O. Brennan