Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

Wilfred Burchett

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

Stephen Cambone

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

Thomas Francis Meagher

Great interests demand great safeguards.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Change demands new learning.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

Shia LaBeouf

Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.

Robert A. Heinlein

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

Tom Robbins

Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Tony Juniper

A broad and joined-up approach is needed if we are to match human demands with the capacity of the planet

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.

Sigmund Freud

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Robert Walpole

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

William Hurt

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

William James

[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.

Sarah Palin

It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.