Rockface sheer and imposing, emerges from the sea…

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are…

— Richard Whately

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…

— Wynton Marsalis

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

— Franz Kafka

We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able…

— Barack Obama

Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society…

— Paul Driessen

Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It…

— Max Nordau

Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material…

— Hilaire Belloc

The United States is imposing sanctions on individuals and companies working to advance Iran's ballistic missile program, and we are going to remain vigilant…

— Barack Obama

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

— Ian Mckellen

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…

— Stephen Harper

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating…

— John Stott

What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that…

— B. C. Forbes

It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a…

— Eric Hoffer

The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are…

— Bill O'Reilly