Quotes About Demand

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5, 000 dollars or your back

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of sh.. that it demanded.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Love must not be supplied more or less than it's demand but must be supplied in equilibrium with demand of the other.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

The Austrian-born Israeli philosopher Martin Buber describes this quality of presence that life demands of us: "In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

Choosing to request rather than demand does not mean we give up when someone says no to our request. It does mean that we don't engage in persuasion until we have empathized with what's preventing the other person from saying yes.

Give the lady what she wants!

Care for a leg?' Mr. MacDonnell held the basket of chicken up toward Fenris Jones. 'Is that some kinda comment?' Fenris Jones demanded. 'Of course not,' Mr. MacDonnell said. 'It's an offer of dinner.

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..

Some innovations just don't attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in 2002) the potentialities of broadband (G3) technology are being taken up rather slowly because few people want to surf the Internet or watch movies from their mobile phones.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressor

And the Son is ordered to demand this authority so that He might actually show reverence toward the Father and His inexpressible humility.

Therefore the Law finds man not only unwilling but also unable to do what the Law demands. Thus he says here in the text that on the day of the assembly the people refused and could not hear the voice of the Law, and that therefore they asked for another teacher, one who would speak to them a word they could bear.

Thus the fleshly use of sex is forbidden, because it is a disorderly lust. Where, however, sex is associated with you by marriage, then the flesh should be used, and you render to the divine Law, that is, to love what is demanded.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Men's lot in life is endless hard work whose fruits will be consumed largely by others. The more men bring in, the greater the demands. Should men fail, they may lose both what they made and those to whom they gave it. Perhaps the most terrifying thing about Melville's story is that, at times, Bartleby's behavior and fate can tempt even the most active and successful man.

I don't have any experience with," she faltered, "children like Lily." "Most people don't. It's the demand for perfection in our society and the definition of that perfection that blocks out all other possibilities.

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door.