#demand

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#demanded #i #story #viewer #wanted

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#also #defects #demand #enterprises #excel

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#because #blessing #characters #collapses #constraints

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#capricious #demands #discipline #easy #enough

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?' ↗

— John Tuley

#asserting #belief #demand #description #direction

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. ↗

— Tom Waits

#certain way #demands #ignore #impossible #magnetism

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better. ↗

— Scott Walker

#areas #believe #better #demand #does

Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#biological #biological weapons #capacity #chemical #course

It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#build #class #company #computer #demanding

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#american people #any #arouse #citizen #conscience