Browsing Topic Best Demand Quotes

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

Never expect, never assume, never ask, and never demand. Just let it be. Because if it’s meant to be, it will happen.

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Never expect, never assume, never ask, and never demand. Just let it be. If it’s meant to be, it will be.

We Jews continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands. While the naive Americans wait for Khrushchev to bury them, we have taught them to submit to our every demand.

The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don’t demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.

To the transgender community, I am more than willing to give you an audience, but you will not summon me. I am not bending to anybody’s demands.

It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience. There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts. Women who have had too many men seem to choose the next one out of revenge rather than with feeling. When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. You’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

Never expect, never assume, never ask, and never demand. Just let it be. Because if it’s meant to be, it will happen.

All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.

Supply creates its own demand.

The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay’d. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.

When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your D*** lemons, what the h*** am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

Live your life as you see fit. That’s not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone – either to grow up or to disintegrate.