Impose Quotes

405 Impose quotes by 345 unique authors

I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from… — Rick Yancey
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to… — Margaret Atwood
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does… — Albert Schweitzer
Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and… — Karl Popper
If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe. — Patrick Rothfuss
We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent… — John F. Kennedy
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a… — William S. Burroughs
…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a… — Kate Chopin
We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are… — Paulo Coelho
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting… — Jack Vance
There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We… — Oliver Sacks
Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose,… — Steig Larsson
When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity… — Anne Rice
All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.... — Robertson Davies
Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal… — Glenn Greenwald
The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or… — James A. Garfield
You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me. — John Green
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be… — Ayn Rand
At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” We suffer because we feel we… — Paulo Coelho
At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is… — Roger Ebert
It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies… — John Edward Williams
We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop. — George W. Bush
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an… — Emma Goldman
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished. — Julius Caesar
Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations,… — Pete Townshend

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