Demand Quotes - Page 31

• Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Success, Insanity, Sometimes

  Isobelle Carmody (2011). “The Keeping Place: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book Four”, p.701, A&C Black

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• This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response of anyone--other people's reactions, their emotions, their criticisms, their demands--but somehow they don't reciprocate. Maybe they can't. Maybe they lack the gift, if it is one.

  Margaret Atwood

  People, Criticism, Emotion

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “The Robber Bride”, p.84, Anchor

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• For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Jesus, Lying

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.80, NavPress

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• I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.

  Steve Toltz

  Thinking

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• I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

  Francois Truffaut

  Agony, Joy, Cinema

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• Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.

  Surya Das

  Patience, Attachment, People

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• Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beloved

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• My niceness has a very low threshold and that little girl just sucked it dry, so don’t push me, Olympain. I don’t want so much as a single Atlantean stone overturned. Guard it with your life because the next time I come here, that’s the price I’m going to demand for your incompetence. (ZT) Nice talking to you, ZT. I so look forward to your visits. Next time we’ll do pastries, ‘kay? (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Nice, Talking

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• One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

  Edith Wharton

  Moving, Discovery, Pace

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.269, VM eBooks

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• I don’t want your lying kindness. Sure, you’ll smile and be so sweet to me that I’ll trust you, but the minute I don’t give you everything you want the instant you demand it, you’ll turn on me and try to crush me. You’re just like everyone else in the world. No one matters but you. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Crush, Sweet, Kindness

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.20, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

  Anatole France

  Military, War, Patriotic

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• This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.

  Martin Buber

  Art, Men, Creative

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.78, eBookIt.com

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• It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling.

  Norman Maclean

  Taken, People, Feelings

  Norman Maclean (2010). “Young Men and Fire”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it already has destroyed then it has left a void filled by nothing but the demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is collectively decided to be good.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Self, Risk, Independence

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• i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Beautiful, Perfection, Ego

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

  Seth Godin

  Passion, Confusion, Choices

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• I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Mean, Attention, Dare

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.109, Chronicle Books

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• The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Self, Personality

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.228, Vintage

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• Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Relationship, Jesus, Commitment

  Ravi Zacharias (2005). “I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Ma’at demands a leader.” “Yeah so I’ve heard.

  Rick Riordan

  Leader, Yeah, Heard

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and here’s how I can tell: because I did not demand that he become my Great Emancipator or my Source of All Life, nor did I immediately vanish into that man’s chest cavity like a twisted, unrecognizable, parasitical homonculus. During our long period of courtship, I remained intact within my own personality, and I allowed myself to meet (him) for who he was.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Crush, Men, Long

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• Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Deserve More, Temptation, Impossible

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• You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Judging Yourself, Mind

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.36, Vintage

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• The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

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• Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Country, Territory, Should

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