Quotes of: Imposing Keyword

There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that he was the chap to make it work. He tried to impose his reformation by the sword, and plunged the civilized world into misery and chaos...

The Once and Future King

Never let your mind imprison your achievements by imposing disbelief on you.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Benjamin Tucker

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

Institutes of the Christian Religion

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

The Mill on the Floss

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

A Nietzsche Reader

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Peaches for Father Francis

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Veterans of the Psychic Wars

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

Naguib Mahfouz

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.

Paul Arden

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Prince Charles

For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.

Richard Engel

If you’re struggling to “think outside the box” remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

Ryan Lilly

People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.

Sharon Stone

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

Tony Campolo

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Tom Stoppard

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

Kevin Durand

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

Karen Maitland

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

Maureen Dowd

Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track.

Mitt Romney

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Noam Chomsky