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Tag Name "Demanded" (189)

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They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening
George Orwell
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Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
John Crowe Ransom
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I've always worked. I have always been too responsible. But I don't know how to live any other way. I think that this discipline was also demanded of me by my work.
Giorgio Armani
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
John Lennon
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Free food! mumbled Hamilton, his mouth full. No wonder you're rich. You don't have to pay for anything. Since when is it free? Jonah demanded. If I don't leave a big tip, it'll be all over Europe that the Wiz is a cheapskate! They'll seat me behind the sound-man from the penguin movie at the Oscars!
Gordon Korman
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Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
John Mott
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I am convinced that he loved Eva [Braun] and there is absolutely no question of her complete adoration of him. He was away all the time because his position demanded it. She couldn't travel with him because their relationship was supposed to be secret.
Gretl Braun
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A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.
Josh Radnor
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Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.
Henry A. Kissinger
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Let go of me or slow down, she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him. He slowed down. I swear to God, you try the patience of a saint. You aren't a saint, Brodick, no matter what your mother might have told you.
Julie Garwood
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Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
Henry David Thoreau
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It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.
Julie Smith
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I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.
Henry Miller
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For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earths true past was dug up in abundance.
Kenneth R. Miller
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Will you, or will you not, quit me? I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. I would prefer not to quit you, he replied, gently emphasizing the not.
Herman Melville
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[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, in his rather undiplomatic way, demanded that Washington bring words and actions together into a coherent, 100 percent pro-Israeli policy. Obama, apparently still having faith in a two-state solution, refused to do this.
Lawrence Davidson
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I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
Ingmar Bergman
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The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.
Lewis B. Smedes
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Why are they all staring? demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. Don’t let it worry you, said Ron. It’s me. I’m extremely famous.
J. K. Rowling
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You think I'd cheat on you? I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster. With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . . . in a heartbeat.
Lisa Kleypas
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Can you drive any faster? Tohr demanded. I got the pedal to the medal The angel looked back. And I don't care what I have to mow over
J.R. Ward
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The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this Blonde Angel Image. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
Magdalena Neuner
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The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.
James P. Hogan
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If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
Mahatma Gandhi
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