It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience.
The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.
There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.
Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.
Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as "superconsumers," able to carry consumer demand all on their own.
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality. . . . Complete freedom implies equality, since if there are rich and poor, the poor cannot be permitted to take liberties with riches. Complete equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions cannot be the equals of those who impose them.
Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.
Art demands constant observation.
The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with here, and it is not being dealt with. It's been shown over and over that prevention and treatment are far more cost effective than police action, out-of-country action, border control, and so on.
If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man--not to make any invidious comparison--is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. . . . Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.
You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
My talents are in demand, and my unique gifts are appreciated by those around me.