Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it.
[David Haye] is the biggest diva that boxing has ever seen, I could not believe the demands.
Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.
Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.
The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.
I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him. . . Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.
And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not. . . -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.
Success: The successful person is willing to do what the unsuccessful person is not willing to do. Draw a profile of success in whatever you are choosing to improve. If you are willing to do what that profile demands, then you have a credible demand of success. If you are not willing to do that then it just will not be there for you. You can't have the one without the other.
The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.
The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero.
As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied.
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.
Promise demands Process.
Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.
Today's challenge for women: to value ourselves and demand that others do, too.
The needed change within us is God's work, not ours. The demand is for an inside job, and only God can work from the inside. We cannot attain or earn this righteousness of the kingdom of God: it is a grace that is given.
Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.