#demand

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#apply #demands #devours #experience #general

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture. ↗

— Leila Josefowicz

#audience #demanding #effort #gesture #i

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#demand #freedom #freedom of speech #how #liberties

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for. ↗

— Bobby Knight

#coach #demanding #i #i came #most

I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#get #i #imagine #intention #interests

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#certain #circumstances #deeds #demand #even

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#applause #demand #hinders #means #our

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#clashes #demands #does #his #likewise

Composing demands a degree of isolation. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#degree #demands #isolation

One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be 10% lower over a 20-year period. ↗

— Theresa May

#britain #caused #certain #could #demand