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Demanding Quotes (page 26)

Edward de Bono quote: "A question is a polite way of demanding something."
A question is a polite way of demanding something. Edward de Bono
Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy Diana Wynne Jones
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways. A. J. Jacobs
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves. C. S. Lewis
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child? miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. P. J. O'Rourke
James Baldwin quote: "The impossible is the least that one can demand."
The impossible is the least that one can demand. James Baldwin
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved for the dullard. It is the very opposite of creation, which is pla? The part of me which was given up to work, which enabled my wife and child to live in the manner which they unthinkingly demanded, this part of me which kept the wheel turning - a completely fatuous, ego-centric notion! - was the least part of me. I gave nothing to the world in fulfilling the... Henry Miller
Karl Marx quote: "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the..."
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. Karl Marx
The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
H. L. Mencken quote: "The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas..."
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic. H. L. Mencken
In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb. Chris Hedges
I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue. Henry James
But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch Abernathy won the crown. Suzanne Collins
Anais Nin quote: "You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my..."
You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination. Anais Nin
When you’ve fallen from the sky, been abandoned by your friend, suffered police brutality, metamorphosed into a goat, lost your work as well as your wife, learned the power of hatred and regained human shape, what is there left to do but, as you would no doubt phrase it, demand your rights? Salman Rushdie

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