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"If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!"
"Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them."
"The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life."
"Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own."
"…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror."
"Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked."
"If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared."
"The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe."
"Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like."
"Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do."
"Nothing I do is done by popular demand."
"I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!"
"Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity of labour in the demand for a legal eight-hour day."
"The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all."
"Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events."
"Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be."
"Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self."
"Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation."
"My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it."
"Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands.""
