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Quotes About Demand

Who was Hitler" demanded little Tracy "He was this bloke in World War Two" explained Ben.
~ Jackie French
Y el público siempre pide lo nuevo, la novedad. Pero ¡si la novedad es tan vieja como el mundo!
~ Jacques Prévert
The central attitudes driving the Demand Man are: It's your job to do things for me, including taking care of my responsibilities if I drop the ball on them. If I'm unhappy about any aspect of my life, whether it has to do with our relationship or not, it's your fault. You should not place demands on me at all. You should be grateful for whatever I choose to give. I am above criticism. I am a very loving and giving partner. You're lucky to have me.
~ Unknown
He doesn't object to her sexualization, he just wants to be in control of it, and he wants it oriented towards his gratification. His demand that she not show off her body is not based on the viewpoint of a responsible parent but rather is more like the attitude of a jealous boyfriend.
~ Unknown
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The television was on. It had been on for hours. Years. It was there. TV on demand, a great freedom. Hadn't Burroughs said there was more freedom today than ever before. Wasn't that like saying things were more like today than they've ever been.
~ Lynne Tillman
Your intended?" Dakota demanded. "You mean to say he already had a mate staked out and he's been encroaching on my preserve?
~ Unknown
But the workingpeople, the common people, they won't allow it.' 'It's the common people who get most fun out of the torture and execution of great men.... If it's not going too far back I'd like to know who it was demanded the execution of our friend Jesus H. Christ.
~ John Dos Passos
Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.
~ John Gray
I want that Easter Ham. Where's my Thanksgiving Turkey? Miss Trixie snarled
~ John Kennedy Toole
les exigí que leyesen Guerra y paz hasta la última página.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
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, Silent Spring
As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.
~ Susan Faludi
Faith does not ask for possible things; it demands impossible.
~ T. B. Joshua
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Perfection isn't attainable, that's why we demand it from others.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Those who dont want to supply what life demands suffer the consequences.
~ Sunday Adelaja
She demanded payment for it, in advance, in kind. Cows were not enough. A virgin priestess was required, human blood for human blood; the leader's eldest daughter would be best.
~ Madeline Miller
Traédmelo de vuelta —les dijo
~ Madeline Miller
It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.
~ Maggie Nelson
Silverman also contends that a baby's demands on the mother can be "very flattering to the mother's narcissism, since it attributes to her the capacity to satisfy her infant's lack, and so—by extension—her own. Since most women in our culture are egoically wounded, the temptation to bathe in the sun of this idealization often proves irresistible.
~ Maggie Nelson
It's the binary of normative/transgressive that's unsustainable, along with the demand that anyone live a life that's all one thing.
~ Maggie Nelson
Silverman also contends that a baby's demands on the mother can be "very flattering to the mother's narcissism, since it attributes to her the capacity to satisfy her infant's lack, and so—by extension—her own.
~ Maggie Nelson
said. 'Get my camera, would you?
~ Maggie O'Farrell