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Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.
— Max Elliott Slade
I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.
— Esther Dyson
Erich, they differ from us only in the limitations imposed upon them by stone, as opposed to iron and steel.
— Torsten Krol
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.
— George Soros
The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
— Vladimir Putin
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.
— Dean Acheson
Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down ... or prisons self-imposed.
— Chriscinthia Blount
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.
— Phyllis Schlafly
The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.
— Frances G. Wickes
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
— Pope Francis
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
— Edward Sapir
Life was imposed on her from outside
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The death penalty can be imposed fairly only after carefully considering all the reasons why death might not be the appropriate sentence
— Bryan Stevenson
Education is imposed ignorance.
— Noam Chomsky
From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.
— Philip Yancey
All limitations are self-imposed.
— Ernest Holmes
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.
— Dawson Trotman
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
— Ernest Holmes
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
— Stella Young
Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.
— Andrew J. Bernstein
Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.
— Russell L. Ackoff
Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.
— Margaret Mitchell
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have always had deep concerns about anyone's philosophy being imposed on the entire community.
— Kelvin Ogilvie
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
— Greg Egan
It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.
— Paul Muldoon
If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.
— Glenn T. Seaborg
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They
— George Orwell
The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it.
— Howard Tomb
Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
— Barack Obama
Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
— Henry David Thoreau
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
— Philip Yancey
In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love.
— C.I. Scofield
I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
— Augustus William Hare
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.
— Nancy Horan
The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
— Denis Waitley
One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.
— Philip Roth
Like all people with nothing to do, he was very disciplined and stuck religiously to the schedule he had imposed on himself. He
— Ajith Pillai
A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.
— Claes Oldenburg
I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
— Ambrose Bierce
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around
— Coco Chanel
To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
— Angela Davis
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
— Arthur Koestler
Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.
— Michael Xavier
If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.
— Sterling W. Sill
In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.
— Sunil Mittal
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
— Jeanette Winterson
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.
— Alfie Allen
The sky wasn't the limit - the only limits were the ones we imposed upon ourselves.
— Nicole Williams
There is no reality only our own order imposed on everything. — Brian Herbert
Segregation, he concluded, is neither sought nor imposed by healthy ... human beings.
— Jonathan Kozol
I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.
— Anthony Daniels
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
— Adrienne Shelly
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
— Paul Muldoon
You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?
— Honore De Balzac
When your livelihood depends on self-imposed productivity, you either get good at it or you find yourself in mounds of debt.
— Nacie Carson
Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.
— Jack Weatherford
Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but is not always rightly imposed.
— R.A. Salvatore
The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.
— Parker J. Palmer
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
— Noam Chomsky
The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.
— Kristoffer Polaha
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
— George Sand
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
— Will Oldham
Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve.
— Mike Shanahan
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
— Lord Chesterfield