Imposing Quotes

158 quotes by 148 authors

Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid… — Mikhail Gorbachev
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes… — Andrew Sullivan
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter,… — David Bentley Hart
We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat… — Elif Safak
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. — Marcel Proust
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the… — Mark Twain
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. — Esther Dyson
An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on… — Fred Upton
I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you. — Mike Lowry
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to… — Fred Melamed
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk. — Lance Morrow
The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death… — Mike Fitzpatrick
Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice. — Chuck Hagel
There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were… — Jakaya Kikwete
Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his… — Laura Mulvey
The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes… — Camille Paglia
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then… — Mark Twain
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others. — Geraldine Ferraro
The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from… — Hector Berlioz

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