Demand Quotes - Page 33

• As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

  William Faulkner

  Two, Long, People

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• Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hair, Fancy Cars, Oil

  "The Dharma Bums". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 13, 1958.

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• Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

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• You aren't even angry with me anymore, Stefan, so let me up." He didn't budge. "It would be a misconception on your part, little Tanya, if you are thinking I have to be angry to make love to you." His head bent, his lips grazing her cheek all the way to her ear. With his warm breath sending tingles all over her, he continued in a whisper, "I wanted you last night, today a dozen times, right now more than ever. Tell me to love you, Tanya. Demand it of me!

  Johanna Lindsey

  Love You, Night, Thinking

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• The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, People, Intensity

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.155, Modern Library

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• I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Mind, Sat

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• The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

  John Ashbery

  Summer, Night, Giving

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Civilization, People

  Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Promise, Rebuilding, Shattered

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Bottles, Whiskey, Constant

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). “The Great Gatsby”, p.30, Oxford University Press

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• Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Combination, Circumstances, Unheard

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.116, Penguin

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• My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their future. For the most part, I trust them to make the right choices for themselves. I always look forward to seeing them, and I love just watching them sleep. What a great relationship.

  Amy Chua

  Dog, Sleep, Choices

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

  Virginia Woolf

  Religious, Cutting, Light

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.594, Wordsworth Editions

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• No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Work, Perfect

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.183, University of Virginia Press

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• Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and worked here on earth, fulfilling moment by moment His divine commission and the stern demands of His incarnation. Never was there a word or even a look of complaint.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Father, Humanity

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• For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.

  Paul Auster

  Commitment, Space, Offering

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare was innocently grazing when the ill-bred seducer had his way with her. Now it appears the mare has conceived, and a feud is raging between Caird, who demands financial compensation, and Mawdsley, who insists that had the pasture fencing been in better repair, the clandestine meeting would never have occurred. Worse still, it has been suggested that the mare is a shameless lightskirt and did not try nearly hard enough to preserve her virtue.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Trying, Feuds, Way

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.

  Janet Fitch

  Love Is, Hatred, Mind

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• When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Love, Life, God

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• The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suicide, Believe, Envy

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (p. 2151), 1874.

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• The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.

  John Mortimer

  Fall, Hands, People

  John Mortimer (1994). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”, Viking Press

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• If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

  Melina Marchetta

  Needs, Want, Might

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• There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

  Gayle Forman

  Relationship, Thinking, Said

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jun 05, 2015

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• Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, What Matters, Knowing

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• It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Helping Others, Men, Practice

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