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Quotes About Demand

One way to make a fortune is to sell a necessity that is low in cost and repeats.
~ W. Clement Stone
Schools of business responded to popular demand for finance and creative accounting. The results are decline.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
~ Bjorn Lomborg
Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Why does every girl in the world wanna date me? Especially right now man, especially when I'm busy!
~ Donald Glover
As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.
~ Marilyn Manson
The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.
~ John Gay
There is no punishment too extreme for the crazy bastard who came up with the idea of fidelity. To demand of human flesh fidelity.
~ Philip Roth
Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.
~ Philip Yancey
C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a realization, a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations – a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.
~ Philip Zaleski
And then, at this stage, every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people's champion.
~ Plato
So are you going ahead with your plan?" Danny demanded. "Yeah. Sure," Todd said. "I have to. They just took the weekend off. For sure. Tomorrow is school. That means more worms in my backpack, in my books, in my lunch." "Yuck," Danny murmured on the other end of the line.
~ R.L. Stine
I was stunned. "I wished it," I murmured. "And now it's come true." "What are you talking about?" Foz demanded. He grabbed me by the shoulders. "Get it together, Tim. We've got to do something! What's going to happen when your parents get home?" "I told Ginny I'd turn her into a rabbit," I explained, still dazed. "To get back at her for ruining all my magic shows. And now she is a rabbit!
~ R.L. Stine
Noah — get off me!" she demanded, trying to push the big duck off her chest.
~ R.L. Stine
He waited a second, then made an abrupt flapping motion with his hands. Well? he demanded. I'm a vampire, you silly woman. Ask me in! We're wanted felons, you know!
~ Rachel Caine
I just asked them not to volunteer where I was, that's all. I know it was the wrong thing to do, but sometimes - sometimes it doesn't matter. Right, wrong, it's just the thing you have to do. And I had to see you. I had to know you were okay. I'll apologise for basically hovering, but I can't be sorry for being worried about you. I didn't crash your door and demand to see you. I just...stayed close. -Shane, Fall Of Night
~ Rachel Caine
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
~ Rachel Carson
If we would divert to constructive research even a small fraction of the money spent each year on the development of ever more toxic sprays, we could find ways to use less dangerous materials and to keep poisons out of our waterways. When will the public become sufficiently aware of the facts to demand such action?
~ Rachel Carson
this is only the beginning. Many die, many kill their bodies and souls, but they cannot kill the justice of God, even they cannot kill the eternal spirit. From their very degradation that spirit will rise up to demand of the world compassion and justice
~ Radclyffe Hall
I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes.
~ Dean Koontz
Three million hardcovers flew off shelves. Film rights sold in a frantic auction.
~ Dean Koontz
We live in a world filled with evil and moral confusion. There is only one way out: affirmation of a God Whose primary demand of us is that we treat our fellow human beings decently. Faith in any god who makes any other primary demand will ultimately fail to solve the problem of evil. And any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail
~ Dennis Prager
From its earliest days, the raison d'être of Judaism has been to change the world for the better (in the words of an ancient Jewish prayer recited daily, "to repair the world under the rule of God"). This attempt to change the world, to challenge the gods, religious or secular, of the societies around them, and to make moral demands upon others (even when not done expressly in the name of Judaism) has constantly
~ Dennis Prager