I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine Copy Share Image
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don't think that's fair. — Luke Perry Copy Share Image
Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Greatness can’t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us. — Jeff Sutherland Copy Share Image
I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
“Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work… — Kyra Gregory Copy Share Image
The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image
The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A better way to help American companies compete against competitors abroad is to remove all series and myriad of obstacles they face… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The… — Donald A. Wollheim Copy Share Image
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines. — Adrienne Shelly Copy Share Image
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourselves.” — Lizzie Velásquez Copy Share Image
To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you. — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect. — Walid Jumblatt Copy Share Image
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
