#demands

As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#demands #depend #general #heavy #his

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#ending #i #just #know #movie

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have. ↗

— Michael Haneke

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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others. ↗

— Elizabeth Janeway

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Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#alone #annihilation #any #believing #belongs

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#climbing #demands #everest #mount #mount everest

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position. ↗

— Carl Karcher

#because #been #company #demands #desire

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here? ↗

— Emma Thompson

#areas #behaviour #change #communicating #communication

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#broken #caresses #complete #demands #kind