Quotes About Imposed

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

Perhaps such secrets, the secrets of everyone, were only expressed when the person laboriously ragged them into the light of the world, imposed them on the world, and made them a part of the world's experience. Without this effort, the secret place was merely a dungeon in which the person perished; without this effort, indeed, the entire world would be an uninhabitable darkness; and she saw, with a dreadful reluctance why this effort was so rare.

From the CAA to farm laws, all sorts of legislations have been imposed by the BJP aimed at disturbing peace and stability of Punjab and the nation as a whole.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

Some relative names are imposed to signify the relative habitudes themselves, as "master" and "servant," "father," and "son," and the like, and these relatives are called predicamental [secundum esse]. But others are imposed to signify the things from which ensue certain habitudes, as the mover and the thing moved, the head and the thing that has a head, and the like: and these relatives are called transcendental [secundum dici].

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America.

A quiet mind is one that is willing to speak the truth that is felt internally. It is a mind that has not yet been conditioned to accept a reality that is being imposed upon it by well-meaning adults and cultural and religious teachings.

The plain fact is that responsibility cannot be imposed. It can only grow from within, fed and directed by values absorbed at home and in the community. Responsibility that is not anchored in positive values can be antisocial and destructive. Gang members often show great loyalty and strong responsibility in relation to one another and to their gang. Terrorists take their duties in dead earnest; they carry out commands, even if they involve sacrificing their own lives. The

Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society

I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.

Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others--sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on--can sometimes have dangerous side effects.

I don't want the values of others being imposed on my children in my school, and I don't think that should be happening in a public school or a private school.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.

Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

The harsh terms imposed on Germany created the economic and political atmosphere that enabled the Nazis to come to power.

You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire?

and the refusal of the Roosevelt administration to recognise the Japanese government imposed on Manchuria.