Demanding
It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn’t have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough
Author: Thierry HenryTopics: Dad, Demanding, Enough, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Tough
Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own quickening heartbeat.
Author: Gail CarrigerTopics: Demanding, Famous, Heartbeats, Pathetic, Sounded, Touch
Baseball is a game that demands both precision and passion.
Author: A. Bartlett GiamattiTopics: Demand, Demanding, Passion, Passion for Music, Passionate, Passionate Situations
Baseball is a sport that demands respect for tradition and an openness to innovation
Author: A. Bartlett GiamattiTopics: Demand, Demanding, Open-mindedness, Openly, Openness, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Religious life, Religious traditions, Respect, respected, Respectful, Sport, Sport editor, Sports, Sports People, Traditional
The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Demanding, Evidence, Famous, Ketchup, Practically, Racism, Words
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Demanding, Distrust, Fact, Famous, Reason, Science
We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.
Topics: Ability, Demand, Demanding, High, High level, high performance, Interest, Letting, Letting go, Level, Level-headed, Resources, Respect, Rise, Rising, Strength
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: Demand, Demanding, Famous, Heart, Heart disease, Heartbeats, Inspirational, Joy, Joyful, Joyfulness, Life, Meaningful
Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable.
Author: Theodor HerzlTopics: Demand, Demanding, Home, Home life, Homeland, Jewish, Jewish community, Platform, Platform-stage
The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.
Author: Emil CioranTopics: Demand, Demanding, Hell, Help, Lesson, Letting go, Protesct, Suffer, Suffering, Suitable, Sum
Playing against Messi, as I’ve said before, is as tough a test of your concentration as any in football. At any moment, he can take the mickey out of you. Physically, it is demanding, but mentally even more so. You cannot switch off.
Author: Paul ScholesTopics: Concentration, Demanding, Famous, Football, Mentally, Messi, Mickey, Moment, Physically fit, Playing, Tough
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Deliver, Demand, Demanding, Huge, Human, Human activities, Lesson, Letting, Organized-religion
An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Demanding, Established, Famous, Innovation, Meaningful
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Topics: Always, Demand, Demanding, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Heal, Life, Meaningful, Place, Plain, Straight, Strange, Things
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
Author: Che GuevaraTopics: Demanding, Democracy, Election, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Near, Nearly, Necessarily, Policy, Political, Productive, Profession
God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Topics: Deeds, Demanding, Designs, Desire, Desire for Goodness, God, God willing, Inner Strength, Inner Struggles, Responsibility, Rest
Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Topics: Demand, Demanding, God, God willing, Religion, Single, Single Day, Special, Times, Times of difficulty, Unforgetable
I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
Topics: Demand, Demanding, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Lucky, Meaningful
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting
Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Demanding, Democracy, Difference, Lasting Memories, Later, Laugh, Ordering, Times, Times of difficulty, Voting rights
The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Topics: Demand, Demanding, God willing, Habit, leader, Leader Worship
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Created, Demanding, Development, Entirely, Mass Movement
Life is better lived than conceptualized. This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation.
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Creations, Demanding, Little Things, Live, Lived, Manipulation, Write
There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.
Author: Benito MussoliniTopics: Continue, Demand, Demanding, Famous, Great, Individuals, Indivisuality, Laws, Meaningful, Silence, Silent, Struggle