Quotes with demands

Quotes 61 till 76 of 76.

  • Arthur Capper The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Arthur Erickson The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Oscar Wilde There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
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  • Carter G. Woodson They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • John Naisbitt We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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  • Bradley Whitford We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Ayn Rand What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • August Strindberg Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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