Impose Upon Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
— Samuel Johnson
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It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he…
— Kevin Keegan
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[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine…
— John Dewey
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While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this faculty…
— Thomas Ligotti
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The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.
— Jacque Fresco
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The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the…
— Jacque Fresco
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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.
— Honore de Balzac
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A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
— Curt Sachs
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I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back…
— Oriana Fallaci
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That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point…
— Melanie Phillips
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Clearly understand that the only limitations you will ever have are the limitations you impose upon yourself. You truly do have infinite potential.
— Bob Proctor
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What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or…
— Claud Cockburn
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After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to…
— Edward Hopper
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...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface:…
— Roland Barthes
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit…
— Anthony Burgess
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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
— Anne Carson
Who Wrote These Impose Upon Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Impose Upon Quotes as follows: