The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on… — Mike Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at… — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image
To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap.… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Copy Share Image
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk. — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
