Demands Quotes

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

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.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.