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Quotes About Imposing

enormous, probably three hundred pounds and six foot four. He had a black beard and black hair. He wore tattersall pants and
~ Leo W. Banks
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
~ lessing doris iii
The price of imposing the ruthless will of an ideological minority upon a large population is massacre; and the ultimate victim of that massacre is the revolution itself.
~ Lewis Mumford
I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It was more of a castle than a house. It loomed over them, immense and massive, three stories high.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
~ Edward Tufte
Vast and implacable, like a kraken of the deep undisturbed by storms raging across the ocean surface, the apparatus of empire still coiled its prodigious tentacles, ready to flex and squeeze its victims tightly, as it had ever done.
~ Tom Holland
We should give it an imposing name, too," he said. "The Inscrutable Bowl of Infinite Stew, or something." Thorn
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Go ahead," Starflight said. "It's OK. I'll watch them." He shook his wings and puffed out his chest imposingly, which came across a bit like a tree frog trying to look menacing.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
He looks mean in a kind of distant way.
~ David Foster Wallace
He's built like a brick shithouse made of a hundred smaller brick shithouses.
~ Chuck Wendig
Oread" Whirl up, sea— whirl your pointed pines, splash your great pines on our rocks, hurl your green over us, cover us with your pools of fir.
~ Hilda Doolittle
In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his ideas to reality by imposing them on his fellow man.
~ Lionel Trilling
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.
~ Rebecca Pidgeon
Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.
~ Unknown
Human beings poison religion, imposing their prejudices, superstitions, and corruptions onto its rituals and texts, not the other way around.
~ David Horowitz
Your first time in New York, feeling like you were marching through canyons, the skyscrapers leaning over to peek down at you and your trombone.
~ David Levithan
when he smiled, displayed a set of white teeth which would have done credit to a shark.
~ Honore de Balzac
Pakistanis have constantly forgotten that offers of autonomy and recognition of linguistic and cultural separateness is often a better option than imposing greater centralization by force.
~ Husain Haqqani
He is a gross man-mountain balanced on strangely tiny feet. Not fat, vast.
~ Unknown
He was a six and a half foot scowl. (on Rachmaninov)
~ Igor Stravinsky
God is the only standard of justice, and we must submit to his standard instead of imposing our own standard on him.
~ Unknown
A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking.
~ Diana Gabaldon