Demand Quotes

Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender.

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.

The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful.

The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.