Quotes About Demand

los excesos de generosidad llevan a mecenas y filántropos a la ruina, de igual manera que la valentía, o la audacia, solo son exigibles ante la inevitable presencia de la muerte.

There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.

would have required the skins of over 1,500 calves.

Having begun their protest by demanding that the realm should be governed only by 'native-born men', the opposition now insisted on nothing less than the total expulsion of all foreigners, 'never to return'.

The rapid global economic growth from the 1950s required ever-increasing quantities of raw materials and foodstuffs—metals, oil, coal, timber, fish, meat, and agricultural commodities of all types. Heightened demand for these pushed commodity frontiers ever outward, into parts of the world that were not yet wholly integrated into the modern economy.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

It can be met only by a right understanding, on the part of all classes, of what kinds of labor are good for men, raising them, and making them happy; by a determined sacrifice of such convenience, or beauty, or cheapness as is to be got only by the degradation of the workman; and by equally determined demand for the products and results of healthy and ennobling labor.

It being the privilege of the fishes, as it is of rats and wolves, to live by the laws of demand and supply; but the distinction of humanity, to live by those of right.

The demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

There is a moment of surface tension when a knife blade presents its demand and the flesh honors it. An instant of pressure before the puncture, the rip before the slide, a small eternity easy to miss but impossible to ignore if you've felt it before. I lived in that moment a great while for the small sliver of time it was there.

Push" describes a method and means of organizing activities and actions. Push operates on a key assumption—that it is possible to forecast or anticipate demand. Based on this assumption, push works mightily to ensure that the right people and resources are delivered at the right place and the right time to serve the anticipated demand.

On the surface, said the deep voice of Andrew Ryan booming from hidden speakers, The farmer tills the soil, trading the strength off his arm for a land of his own. But the parasites say, 'No! What is yours is ours! We are the state; we are God; we demand our share!

It's need that makes all the trouble.

She stepped around in front of him and stopped him. "You look here, mister. You kiss me now." "Why?" She said slowly, "So everybody will know that I'm Mrs. Lettuce-head.

They had no argument, no system, nothing but their numbers and their needs.

Respect is for those who deserve it, not for those who demand it.

Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular

There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.

Everybody wants a little respect, but many don't realize that real respect is something that is earned, and something that should not be taken lightly. Nobody demands respect until they deserve it, and often times people who really deserve respect don't have to ask for it.

to suppose that it formed part of a vast and enduring happiness that had appeared to me at this point alone; and, so that the following day might not give the lie to this pretense, not to try to demand a further favor following that which had been due only to the artifice of an exceptional moment.

Religious lobbyists have used the "secularism" and "discrimination" arguments to cover their voracious and seemingly insatiable demands to obtain rights to act however they choose. They "need" legislatures to help them, because they are so weak and so discriminated against, or at least that is their shtick.

Why was success required of a person? And once you were successful, life required you to do it again and again.

Perhaps the most important realization of all, although it is an uncomfortable one, is that the social ills attendant upon mechanized farming are the fault of the whole of society, and not only of the growers. The growers, after all, are trying to provide us with the two things we now demand: food which costs an unprecedentedly small proportion of our income, and the availability of the full range of all the varieties of food at all seasons of the year.