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Quotes About Demand

The Gates Foundation's whole approach to saving lives is based on the idea that we need to be pushing innovation for the poor while also increasing demand for it.
~ Bill Gates
We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price--but not when it comes to gas. When it comes to gas, we need it cheap, and the president had better get it for us, or else, we don't care how.
~ Bill Maher
But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
~ Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin: Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
~ Bill Watterson
Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?! Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to. Calvin: Oh.
~ Bill Watterson
Now you see this one-eyed midget Shouting the word "NOW" And you say, "For what reason?" And he says, "How?" And you say, "What does this mean?" And he screams back, "You're a cow Give me some milk Or else go home
~ Bob Dylan
The trains either don't run at all or come so full that it is impossible to get on them.
~ Boris Pasternak
This man belongs to me, I want him!
~ Bram Stoker
A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.
~ Susanna Kaysen
That evil mojo thing was in my pocket, though, wasn't it?" she demanded. If it hadn't been, she was just plain-and-simple cursed.
~ Suzanne Enoch
What the devil are you doing here?' Rafe demanded, eyeing him suspiciously. Warefield raised his eyebrows. 'You asked for help.' 'I asked for money.' 'It's the same thing.' 'No, it's not. You-' 'And who might this be?
~ Suzanne Enoch
She would just tell us what she wanted," recalled Elvis's cook, Mary Jenkins. "One time she said, 'I want a different cake every day of the week, but don't tell Mama—she'll put me on a diet.
~ Suzanne Finstad
Can we come in, Miss Tramell?" Graves asked in a tone that made the question a demand. She'd tied her curly brown hair back and wore a jacket to cover her holstered gun. There was a satchel in her hand.
~ Sylvia Day
I feel like a very efficient tool or weapon, used and in demand from moment to moment...
~ Sylvia Plath
It is the strangers that are easiest to love at this hard time. Because they do not demand and watch, always watch. I
~ Sylvia Plath
His voice quivered; it had the harp-string note to it that belongs to some intense emotion of which the victim is himself uncertain, or at which he is in disorder. But it was a voice that meant to demand blood.
~ Tanith Lee
If a hundred million Americans woke up one morning and learned they had been infected with a virus that would kill them in a matter of weeks, and only one man had the cure and was demanding their cooperation in exchange for that cure . . . This was true power. All they needed was the right weapon. The one virus with its one cure.
~ Ted Dekker
Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
~ Julie Bishop
Let go of me or slow down," she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him. He slowed down. "I swear to God, you try the patience of a saint." "You aren't a saint, Brodick, no matter what your mother might have told you.
~ Julie Garwood
Yet, to yield, to accept death: the mind forbade it. The mind demanded, against all sense, to go on. Fanning
~ Justin Cronin
If this were simply a story about the past, it would be appropriate to write, at the conclusion of Acts 28 as at the conclusion of a film, "The End." But since the story is unfinished, it is more appropriate to conclude it with, "RSVP," like an invitation that awaits a response. This is what Luke demands from us: not satisfied curiosity about the past, but a response here and now. RSVP!
~ Justo L. González
Why are there never eighty soldiers around when you need them?
~ K.J. Parker
His informality contrasted sharply with the manner of General Groves, who "demanded attention, demanded respect." Oppie, on the other hand, got attention and respect naturally.
~ Kai Bird
Get her to safety or I will kill you for it.
~ Kailin Gow