Demand Quotes - Page 24

• America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Men, Iraq

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

  Maria Callas

  Dignity, Callas

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• Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

  David Cameron

  Men, Europe, Land

  "British PM says stick with EU but promises referendum". "AM" with Rachael Brown, www.abc.net.au. January 24, 2013.

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• When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

  Tony Campolo

  Government, Decision, Important

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.187, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

  Bruce Catton

  Learning, Knowledge, Important

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• Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Priesthood, Pure

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• Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Lying, Sacrifice

  "US politics live blog: Chris Christie GOP presidential talk" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2011.

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• Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Battle, Great War

  "Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words".

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• What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Powerful, America, Champion

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.

  Nick Clegg

  Thinking, Political, Needs

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• Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, America

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.2, Best Books on

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• Music for me, it demands full concentration.

  Paulo Coelho

  Concentration

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• A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Hunger Strike, Literature, Fasting

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• A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Giving Up, Equality, Men

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• I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

  Gail Collins

  Crazy, Government, People

  "Who Decided That This Election Should Be About Sex?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 22, 2012.

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• In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Waiting

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Oct 23, 2013

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• 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

  Relationship, Giving, Littles

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• I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

  Russell Crowe

  Insecure, Giving, Up To You

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• My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Names, People

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• I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

  Moshe Dayan

  Reality, Thinking, Two

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• I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

  James Dean

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Character, Long, Waiting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

  Terry Eagleton

  Political, Identity, Language

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• Every story has its demands.

  Clint Eastwood

  Stories

  "Clint Eastwood As a Changeling". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2008.

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• Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Country, Children, Leader

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