Quotes with demands

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  • Bruce Springsteen Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Hybels God is no more intimidated by childish demands for instant gratification than are wise parents.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Ken Keyes Jr I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
    Ken Keyes Jr
    American personal growth author and lecturer (1921 - 1995)
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Anais Nin I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Iris Murdoch In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Henrik Ibsen In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Quentin Crisp It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Murray Kempton It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
    Murray Kempton
    American journalist
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  • George Eliot 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
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Samuel Johnson Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Seneca Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Elizabeth Janeway Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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  • George Jean Nathan Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Marquis de Sade Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Billy Graham Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Vicki Baum Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
    Vicki Baum
    Austrian writer (1888 - 1960)
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  • Ayn Rand Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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