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Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice. -- Chuck Hagel
Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing. -- Vladimir K. Zworykin
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them. -- John Dewey
Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission. -- Charles Krauthammer
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain. -- Federico Fellini
He was imposing, even in his pensiveness. -- George Barr McCutcheon
Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law. -- Joseph Prince
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf. -- Ian Mckellen
When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales. -- Roald Dahl
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. -- Franz Kafka
I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it. -- John Chamberlain
I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good. -- Graham Coxon
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. -- Edward Tufte
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. -- Prince Charles
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. -- Charles Horton Cooley
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. -- Dan Savage
People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief. -- Karen Maitland
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am. -- David Harsanyi
You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution. -- Ted Cruz
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. -- Esther Dyson
Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline. -- Eli Broad
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth. -- Charles H. Townes
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public. -- Michael Polanyi
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. -- Kurt Huber
You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit. -- Damian Lewis
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However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous. -- Jules Verne
The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle. -- Tariq Ramadan
There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with it was to say, 'You know what? You're imposing judgments on me and condemnations, but I don't accept them. I'm going to instead turn the light on you and see what your flaws are and impose the same judgmental standards on you.' -- Glenn Greenwald
Photographers are always imposing -- Susan Sontag
Instead of imposing something, let it make itself. -- Micah Lexier
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. -- Antony Starr
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience... -- Alfred North Whitehead
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. -- Frank Wedekind
The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others. -- James Lee Burke
Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change. -- Andy Law
Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent. -- Mu Xin
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. -- Michael Kimmelman
I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you. -- Mike Lowry
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others. -- Geraldine Ferraro
It is us who change. We grow stronger, and the problems appear less imposing. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
So I hope I've made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag. -- Martin Fowler
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy. -- Garet Garrett
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. -- Marcel Proust
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk. -- Lance Morrow
In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary. -- Shami Chakrabarti
Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression. -- Anthony Kennedy
He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality. -- Peter L. Berger
A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, -- Carolyn Kizer
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful. -- Gertrude Stein
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. -- Ezra Pound
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves. -- Jerome A. Cohen
There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people. -- John Aubrey
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. -- Marshall McLuhan
I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained. -- Henry Paulson
Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. -- Ronald Reagan
It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will. -- Ruth Hurmence Green
We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. -- Barack Obama
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One of my first gigs was as a guest star, and I was supposed to be a big imposing character. -- David Giuntoli
The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change; it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. -- Jimmy Carter
I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age. -- Xavier Dolan
I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title. -- Phil Jackson
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon." -- Walid Jumblatt
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon. -- Walid Jumblatt
There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted. -- Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual. -- Jaggi Vasudev
To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself. -- Henry Fielding
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below. -- Madeleine Albright
We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece. -- Martin Schulz
If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people. -- Marcel Proust
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. -- Marcel Proust
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house. -- Franz Schubert
Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway. -- John Stossel
I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development. -- Joe Armstrong
I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves. -- Elliott Erwitt
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves. -- Andrew Sullivan
If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right. -- Lynne Olson
Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience. -- John Darnielle
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind." -- Joan Didion
Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know. -- Azar Nafisi
The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another. -- Mark Levin
Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine. -- Paul Krugman
I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails. -- Milan Kundera
But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people. -- Stephen Harper
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
The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear. -- Mitch Kapor
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his. -- John Stott
In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesnt mean imposing a bunch of rules. -- Don Yaeger
In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules. -- Don Yaeger
I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project. -- Douglas Wood
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. -- Paulo Freire
I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens. -- Ben Lerner
The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia. -- Felix Archimede Pouchet
I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it. -- Alexander McCall Smith
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature. -- Alan Watts
And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares... -- Robert Montgomery
Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy. -- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you. -- Adel al-Jubeir
A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day. -- Epicurus
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life. -- Eric Hoffer
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth. -- Charles H. Townes
Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are. -- Wynton Marsalis
Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians. -- Pankaj Mishra
I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing Romeo. That was always boring to me. -- Kevin Durand
Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality. -- Colin Wilson
Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and steep fines on large corporations-who have even larger lawyers-is rare. -- Charlotte Laws
Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed. -- Tobsha Learner

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