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• A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Children, Selfish

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Glasses, Expression, Break Out

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.9, Random House

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• Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.

  J.R. Ward

  Sleep, Fate, Fog

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.8, Penguin

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• When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.

  Peter Høeg

  Mother, Taken, Mean

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• Milo refreshed Rae's drink and said, Talk to her. You need to get it off your chest." Then Milo turned to me and said, "Why don't you try a more subtle approach." "I demand you tell me your troubles," I said to my sister. "You're not as funny as you think you are," Rae replied.

  Lisa Lutz

  Thinking, Trying, Needs

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.673, Simon and Schuster

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• These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Moving, Culture

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• What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Art, Book, Forgiving

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• God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, "If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross." There is unbelief, there is even rebellion, in the attitude that says, "God has no right to do this to five men unless...

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Attitude, Heart, Son

  Elisabeth Elliot (2010). “Through Gates of Splendor”, p.266, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love with him, but she never made demands. 'I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Sleep, Ideas

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• My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Powerful, Heart

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.21, Penguin

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• [E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Soul, Individual

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• No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Art, Self, Order

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.82, Macmillan

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• I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

  George MacDonald

  Self, Perfection, Sometimes

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.8597, Delphi Classics

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• Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as "superconsumers," able to carry consumer demand all on their own.

  Naomi Klein

  Wall, Groups, Able

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.496, Macmillan

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• There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Stupidity, Term

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

  Michael Crichton

  Faces, Mathematics, Implications

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

  Joseph Heller

  Children, War, Men

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.

  David Mitchell

  Suicide, Selfish, Careers

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• Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

  Tucker Max

  Men, People, Way

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• Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Charity, Remember, Reason

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• How's our young guest?" he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one of the ministers. She constantly demands to see her mother," said another, "and somewhat less constantly demands that we return her homburg to her.

  Frank Beddor

  Mother, Children, Drug

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• Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.

  Josef Pieper

  World, Exclusion, Grasping

  Josef Pieper (1998). “Leisure, the Basis of Culture”, St Augustine PressInc

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• Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  "We the Living". Book by Ayn Rand, 1936.

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• the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Real, Blessing

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