Then why are you here?" Emma demanded. "Oh, is this one of those missed-connections things? We met the other night, you felt a spark? Sorry, but I don't date trees.

"You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster.

What the hell is going on?" demanded Kami's dad, advancing with his black eyes snapping. Jared blurted, "My intentions are honourable.

"Why are you limping like that?' Nicholas demanded.

What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this.

What are you grinning at?" Katsa demanded for the third or fourth time. "Is the ceiling about to cave in on my head or something? You look like we're both on the verge of an enormous joke.

"Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

"What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set then there'd be peace.

First and last what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded perhaps too much and too often. As for money I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.