Imposing Quotes

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

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 - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

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.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.

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 use the skateboard park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man'.

People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.