Imposing Quotes
Imposing Quote of the day
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.
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.
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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.
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
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 from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.
He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.
Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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.
I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.
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.
I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.
I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
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.
You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you.
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
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.
The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia.
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.
Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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.
There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.
A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.
In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.