#demands

Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him. ↗

— John Lanchester

#demands #life #life

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. ↗

— John Adams

#because #character #corrupts #demands #importance

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. ↗

— Lord Acton

#discussion #faith #good #good faith #government

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for. ↗

— Michael F. Easley

#demands #make #paid #real #responsible

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#disclosure #divine #human #reason #salvation

Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#become #believe #business #careful #changes

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#allow #along #banned #beauty #courage

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence. ↗

— Louis Althusser

#conditions #demands #equipped #existence #formed

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#action #because #bit #comedy #dance

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#dead #demands #poorly #speak #tradition