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Quotes About Impose

Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
~ Ansel Adams
It is important that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world.
~ Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
I prefer my saints to live in caves and not to try to impose their standards on the world: for single-mindedness is a cold virtue.
~ Anthony Daniels
Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.
~ John Ashcroft
I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely mistaken if you think you can put off having a family. It's very hard to find a good man, and it's never a 'good time' to have a baby if you have a career.
~ Mika Brzezinski
Tant la réalité a d'évidence ... Tant cette évidence s'impose! ... Dès que les choses sont arrivées, nous ne pensons même plus qu'elles auraient pu ne pas être ... Ou qu'elles auraient pu être toutes différentes.
~ Roger Martin du Gard
Where the state has undertaken to impose a prior authorisation procedure upon a particular activity, a failure so to act which resulted in pollution violating international law would occasion the responsibility of the state.
~ Malcolm N. Shaw
The loss is hers. Let her remain in this ugly world, full of diseased and soulless people. While I and the true goddesses soar to Mount Olympus. That's the greatest punishment I can impose on her, after all.
~ Andrea Kane
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
~ Saul Bellow
Though griffe literally translates as 'claw,' Parisians have redefined it to mean 'stamp,' 'label,' or 'signature.' It describes the pattern of favorite cafes, shops, walks, meeting places, which each of us imposes on the city and which makes it uniquely 'our Paris.' A griffe is no trivial thing. As surely as a passport, it identifies one as a bona fide resident, with loves, hates, tastes, and prejudices.
~ John Baxter
Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos… A third element of man's nature is this: that he shall not understand what he is doing.
~ John Brunner
Then why should the side effects of your exercise of religious freedom effectively "impose your religion" on those affected—or undermine their own freedom of religion?
~ John Corvino
By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
~ John Dryden
'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.
~ John Stossel
It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
~ Stockwell Day
State the argument, not impose Authentic argumentation fragrances as flowers It requires not whatever approval
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Amalia had the unpredictability of a splinter, I couldn't impose on her the prison of a single adjective.
~ Elena Ferrante
Amalia had the unpredictability of a splinter, I couldn't impose on her the prison of a single adjective.
~ Elena Ferrante
As ever in a crisis, Marie Antoinette showed herself the forceful one who nonetheless could not bring herself finally to impose her will.
~ Antonia Fraser
The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To impose the character of being upon becoming is the supreme test of power.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention. Everywhere you go, you know?
~ Sharon Stone
People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.
~ Sharon Stone
Violence against women is real and something I feel passionately about, and the gateway to all that is wolf whistling. It's allowing a man to impose his will on a woman who is just trying to walk down the street and live her life. It's all about unwanted versus wanted attention, and, of course, there's a fine line.
~ Elizabeth Banks