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Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.
— Lynne Olson
The dummies and slackers, by their mere existence, are imposing a negative externality on the skilled and dedicated,
— Avinash K. Dixit
Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing.
— David Rabe
Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.
— Joseph Prince
I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.
— Joe Armstrong
If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.
— Marcel Proust
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
— Michael Kimmelman
The world is blinded by his fortune and consequence, or frightened by his high and imposing manners, and sees him only as he chooses to be seen.
— Jane Austen
The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.
— Mark Levin
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
— Antony Starr
There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.
— John Aubrey
We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
— James Lee Burke
We all know so goddamn well what's best for other people that it seems unnecessary we get to know them before imposing our will on them.
— Taylor Nadeau
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
— Franz Kafka
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves.
— Jerome A. Cohen
Liberal democracy is a powerful unifying mechanism, blurring differences between people and imposing uniformity of views, behavior, and language.
— Ryszard Legutko
Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves.
— Thomas Keneally
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.
— Chuck Hagel
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
— Marshall McLuhan
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
— Prince Charles
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
— Madeleine Albright
In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.
— Shami Chakrabarti
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
— Frank Wedekind
To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
— Henry Fielding
I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.
— Phil Jackson
There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.
— Jaggi Vasudev
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
— Ezra Pound
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
— Ian McKellen
Photographers are always imposing
— Susan Sontag
A truth once seen by a single mind ends up by imposing itself on the totality of human consciousness.
— Anonymous
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
— Maureen Dowd
Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.
— Alain De Botton
When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.
— Andrew Sullivan
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.
— Ted Cruz
I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.
— Milan Kundera
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
— Franz Schubert
It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.
— Ruth Hurmence Green
When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
— Roald Dahl
I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.
— Kenneth Eade
I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.
— Henry Paulson
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
— Geraldine Ferraro
But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.
— Stephen Harper
He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.
— Peter L. Berger
There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
So much that seems harmless in daylight turns imposing in the dark. What else, you had to wonder, was only a trick of light?
— Karen Thompson Walker
The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.
— Jennifer Harrison
I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.
— David Bowie
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
Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
— David Harsanyi
It is us who change. We grow stronger, and the problems appear less imposing.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
There was no doubt about it: Alexandra Finch Hancock was imposing from any angle; her behind was no less uncompromising than her front.
— Harper Lee
People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
— Karen Maitland
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
— Gertrude Stein
I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
— John Chamberlain
Instead of imposing something, let it make itself.
— Micah Lexier
Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.
— Paul Krugman
He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.
— George Barr McCutcheon
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.
— Josh Keaton
I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.
— Kevin Durand
Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know.
— Azar Nafisi
A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,
— Carolyn Kizer
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.
— Vladimir K. Zworykin
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
— Lance Morrow
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
— Dan Savage
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
— Edward Tufte
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 strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.
— Epicurus
We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.
— Martin Schulz
I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.
— Elliott Erwitt
Never let your mind imprison your achievements by imposing disbelief on you.
— Israelmore Ayivor
One of my first gigs was as a guest star, and I was supposed to be a big imposing character.
— David Giuntoli
tax is always more than just a tax: it is also a way of defining norms and categories and imposing a legal framework on economic activity.
— Thomas Piketty
I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
— Graham Coxon
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Stop imposing your pain on others. Resolve your hurts. A
— Bill Graybill
Help your child see others' emotions as well as experiencing his or her own without imposing your judgment.
— Iben Dissing Sandahl
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
— Walid Jumblatt