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Quotes About Demanding

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.
~ Eric Braeden
Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
~ Derek Bailey
The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.
~ Robert Boswell, Tumbledown
Her deep romantic nature prevented her from demanding, from asking for that quenching. She wanted it to come freely, like flowers that are sent and not requested.
~ Sean Ferrer
Deerfield, Massachusetts February 29, 1704 Temperature 0 degrees They crossed field after field, the Indians constantly demanding more speed. Mercy did not know why the Indians were in such a hurry. They had killed anybody who could chase them.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Love will put you face-to-face with endless obstacles. It will ask you to reveal the parts of yourself you tirelessly work at hiding. It will ask you to find compassion for yourself and receive what it is you are convinced you are not worthy of. Love will always demand more. Surrender to being seen and being loved. Surrender to the beauty of revealing yourself to yourself, and to the ones who saw you before you saw you.
~ Carolyn Brown
When I met Mourinho, I was still very young, but mentally and tactically, he worked on me. He was really demanding: you could not take a step below your level.
~ Arjen Robben
You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
~ Parker Stevenson
Suddenly there's an idea and it demands realization, our entire life, our entire existence consists only of such ideas demanding realization, once this process breaks off, our life breaks off, we're dead. We consist of nothing but ideas that surface inside us and that we want to realize, that we must realize, or else we're dead, so Roithamer. Every idea and and every pursuit of an idea inside us is life, so Roithamer, the lack of ideas is death.
~ Thomas Bernhard
I call it a November-loneliness because there is a sort of demanding stillness in my heart and it, more than ever, inflames both my mental and psychological system. November never pauses, it listlessly seems to show off, don't you think so? Or, rather, it does pause but it is always a hellish pause…
~ Katherine Mansfield
She demands more than she ever gives and rarely shows any gratitude. I hope you're prepared. The only thing she hates more than being told what to do is being told what she should not do.
~ C.W. Gortner
There was a pause, static, a muttered "Give me that," by an indignant female. Then the normally quiet reserved Ashlyn was demanding, "Did you just drunk dial my husband?" "Yes, ma'am," Strider said, and the other two finally burst into laughter.
~ Gena Showalter
You," the female on the bed said, her timbre shaded with irrittion. "New guy. Angel Boy. Colonel Curls, or whatever you want to be called. I'm done asking, so now I'm commanding. Free me.
~ Gena Showalter
Consumerism, the new black. I want my burger my way. Shaken not stirred. Sauce on the side and rare but not rare rare. Venti, two-pump, sugar-free vanilla, non-fat, two Splenda, extra-hot, extra-whip, extra-mocha Mocha and can you put the Splenda in before you pour the milk? (See, this is where it gets positively delicious!) Under the auspices of that wonderful word Consumerism, not only is this not seen as overly demanding, it's positively encouraged by everyone.
~ Geoffrey Wood
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
~ George Eliot
Working for Spider was difficult. He was reasonable, but only when circumstances permitted; understanding of difficulties, yet completely unaffected by them. And he expected impossible things in an impossible timeframe.
~ Ilona Andrews
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
~ Iris Murdoch
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
~ E. B. White
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
~ Mary Bateson
I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.
~ Fede Alvarez
The Championship is relentless sometimes with the Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday.
~ Tom Cairney
I feel squeezed like a lemon - interviewers and people keep turning up unannounced at my office!
~ Francois Englert
Asking someone to be with us turns out to be an impossibly demanding and therefore pretty mean thing to suggest to anyone we would really want the best for.
~ Alain de Botton