Quotes About Demand

What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.

Give that mint Milano back, you bitch. If you can't at least be polite, you don't get a treat.

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.

I was thinking of people who say that happiness is impossible on earth. Look how hard they all try to find some joy in life. Look how they struggle for it. Why should any living creature exist in pain? By what conceivable right can anyone demand that a human being exist for anything but for his own joy? Every one of them wants it. Every part of him wants it. But they never find it. I wonder why.

They were also invincibly arrogant, a characteristic fueled by the fact that they were, by and large, as talented as they thought themselves, a situation which engendered in less-favored mortals a certain reluctant respect. Not that Cynsters demanded respect - they simply took it as their due

Love simply is-it asks no permission. Accetance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it in your hearts or refuse it, but there's no other option.

What in Satan's slightly misguided obsession with Journey happened to this office?" Astrid demanded

by the time your offspring have reached four and five it is far too late to be looking for schools: demand for private education is so high that children must be put down for admission not at birth but in utero, ideally before their first cells have divided.

Besides, I can hear the beasts stamping and lowing in the back. I'd know their moo anywhere. That baby is a thief and I demand—

Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice.

When you live by the demands and supply of life, it becomes a pleasurable adventure.

The greater the number of fish a river bears the greater the number of fishermen that patronize it.

Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I am not allowed a say in yours?

This is when the pill became widely known as The Pill, perhaps the only product in American history so powerful that it needed no name. Women went to their doctors and said they wanted it. They wanted The Pill. Some of them might still have been uncomfortable talking about birth control. Others might have been unsure of its brand name. But The Pill was The Pill because it was the only one that mattered, the one everyone was talking about, the one they needed.

Activists demanded that economists pay more attention to inequality, which economic development had often seemed to exacerbate.

Sacrifice is at the heart of both politics and family. Both parent and citizen understand themselves as subject to a demand for sacrifice. They recognise the demand as legitimate because they live in the world of meanings that the sacrificial act affirms. Sacrifice is, accordingly, the way of being in a meaningful world. Sacrifice, we say, is an act of love. In love, we are willing to sacrifice, and through that sacrifice we simultaneously create and discover the subject that we are.

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

En la personalidad inmadura hay una exaltación del instante y un vértigo por lo inmediato; la necesidad de una pronta recompensa le impide renunciar a las demandas del entorno. Y

En nuestro país, a causa de la escasa experiencia en tentativas de transformar la historia en novela, se exige todavía a los libros que sean legibles y sobre todo que se entiendan. Es decir, que estén al nivel mental de quienes los lean, lo que nos lleva a que se jaleen, con alegría irresponsable, obras de escritores poco exigentes, aunque ese vergonzoso jaleo, por fortuna, no todo el mundo lo acepta, o mejor dicho, llega a entenderlo

What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?