A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence. — Josh Keaton Copy Share Image
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
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 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
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
He was a physically imposing presence - 6 feet tall and very broad in the shoulders - and an imposing intellectual presence… — Jack Hemingway Copy Share Image
There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the… — Jakaya Kikwete Copy Share Image
Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own… — Tobsha Learner 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
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing… — Eric Hoffer 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
It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change… I don't think right-wing… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big… — Irving Fisher 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 great Initiates in the spirit world have vast and imposing plans for the musical future. What is this plan? It is… — John Todd Copy Share Image
You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain 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
By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
This would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Shall I?” I said briefly; and I looked at his features, beautiful in their harmony, but strangely formidable in their still severity;… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Bram stared into a pair of wide, dark eyes. Eyes that reflected a surprising glimmer of intelligence. This might be the rare… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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