Quotes About Imposing

I look like a gorilla, just the way I'm built.

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

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

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

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

His appearance was intimidating not from any single feature but from a lifelong habit of presenting a formidable front to the outside world.

The physical surroundings of most individuals, left to their own choice, vary little wherever they happen to live. No doubt that was the explanation. I was in the presence of one of those triumphs of mind over matter, like the photographer's power of imposing his own personal visual demands on the subject photographed.

She [Lady Budd] was dressed in a manner to be described as impregnable, like a long, neat, up-to-date battle-cruiser.

Elephants endorsed with towers.

He found Washington at once august and disgusting.

But I saw the pair of them, along with everyone else. Hard to miss. Him towering like a raggedy scarecrow in that flapping black scholar's gown, and the sword always quiet next to him, sweet as honey, and poison with it.

large estates sat on the rugged hillsides with spectacular

Her chief work in life was interfering in other people's business and imposing her strong personality upon those who were weaker than herself.

The thought of his high and imposing father's regal progress to Harrowgate, and his very brief stay there, made Desford begin to chuckle again. He must remember, he told himself, to ask Poor Dear Papa, at a suitable moment, for his opinion of Harrowgate.

They could see the mansion above them. It was a large square house, painted white.

Familiarity does not breed contempt, anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful. And that is all as it should be.

Heresy lurks when the pastor appeals to and exerts power and authority, when the pastor sees leadership as imposing his will on the congregation. There is but one Lord and one authority: Jesus, the Lamb, the Lord.

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

group of Steiners and Liesel walked past some shop windows and the imposing town hall, which in later years would be chopped off at the knees and buried.

Were taxes to be levied, Franklin warned, pandemonium would result. Especially when it came to imposing burdens on people, he observed, it was wise to consider what they were inclined to think as well as how they ought to think.

quedasteis fascinados por el pensamiento, cuya cercanía era especialmente penetrante dado que poseía un carácter introspectivo, y a la vez misterioso porque era más difícil de atrapar que las estrellas mismas. Os imponía la sabiduría, mientras que el código era irreflexivo.

then her ladyship, overwhelming in bronze bombazine, regally glided away. Cedric smiled

earlier spirituality was participatory with nature, not imposing cultural values or traits upon it.

Alles, was gigantische Formen annimmt, kann imponieren, auch die Dummheit.