Imposing Quotes

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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for… — Eli Broad
There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks… — Chrissie Wellington
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by… — Franz Kafka
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but… — Albert Einstein
There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be… — Gustave Eiffel
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. — Prince Charles
It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It… — Anthony of Sourozh
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. — Marcel Proust
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. — Antony Starr
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who… — Robert Graves
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind." — Joan Didion
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views… — Doris Lessing
Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. — Jimmy Carter
Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds… — Paul Krugman
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each… — Herodotus
Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it… — David Whyte
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when… — Alexander Hamilton
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint… — Fisher Ames
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence

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