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Quotes About Demand

Colleges are supposed to be the calm environment in which educated men and women determine what's true and what's false, and where they learn to follow a model of scholarly inquiry no matter where it takes them. Instead, many colleges have become hostages to students who demand that their feelings override every other consideration.
~ Thomas M. Nichols
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
~ Thomas Merton
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
~ Thomas Sowell
There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.
~ Irene Rosenfeld
Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.
~ Niki Lauda
In fashion, there's huge pressure to produce results in no time. But you cannot guarantee numbers, because fashion gravitates around desire.
~ Marco Zanini
Noise about carrier M&A will heat up dramatically in United States and India. The pent-up demand for action is there.
~ Rajeev Suri
As a model, I travel non-stop.
~ Jasmine Guinness
In the current world, with work-from-home emerging as a new norm, there is a spurt in demand for security, deployable across multiple work environments.
~ Ashok Soota
As more and more people demand fair pay, the Government and big corporations are going to have to take notice.
~ Caroline Lucas
I've noticed that Hindi films do well in the north, but they don't do that well in the south. But, I want everything! I want the north and the south.
~ Nidhhi Agerwal
I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?
~ David Suzuki
The novelty business is astounding. We can't keep up with it.
~ William Hanna
To us, mastering the atomic fuel cycle and generating nuclear power is as much about diversifying our energy resources as it is about who Iranians are as a nation, our demand for dignity and respect, and our consequent place in the world.
~ Hassan Rouhani
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The difficulty of modern poetry does not stem from its complexity, but rather from the fact that, like mysticism or love, it demands total surrender—and an equally total vigilance.
~ Octavio Paz
If a tale we're reading or watching on screen is too familiar, it becomes boring; we know the end from the beginning and switch off the set or set the book aside. Yet if it is too unfamiliar, we reject the story as unbelievable or incomprehensible. We demand some strangeness, but not too much.
~ Orson Scott Card
There's nothing so absurd that you can't find at least one person to buy it.
~ Colum McCann
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
~ Confucius
But what if all the workers we went to said the same thing? What if, everywhere he [the boss] went, there were workers saying, 'We are worth so much,' and 'We will not be treated this way,' and 'You cannot take away our jobs unless there is a just reason for doing so'? What if all workers, everywhere, demanded this treatment?
~ Cory Doctorow
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
~ D.H. Lawrence
I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you.
~ D.J. MacHale
But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.
~ W.E.B. DuBois