Foisted Quotes

#1. I'm not bipolar, I've just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.

Daniel O'Malley

#2. Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost.

Richard Grasso

#3. The current fashions are impractical for an active person. Skirts so tight one must toddle like an infant, bodices boned so firmly it is impossible to draw a deep breath ... . And bustles! Of all the idiotic contrivances foisted upon helpless womankind, the bustle is certainly the worst.

Elizabeth Peters

#4. Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

Thomas Carlyle

#5. Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

Robert Greene

#6. I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

Michael Chabon

#7. I think it is fine to have sports divided into men's and women's, just as it is fine to say a fifteen-year-old is incapable of consenting to sex. But we should recognize these are social distinctions based on biology, and not categories foisted upon us by nature.

Alice Dreger

#8. There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising.

Peter Thiel

#9. The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves ...

Peter Drucker

#10. My dogs, the only creatures on the planet marked by my singular nurturing imprint, have all turned out to be rude and self-absorbed. In all likelihood, if they were children instead of dogs, I would have foisted more Charlie Sheens or Kardashians onto our crumbling culture.

Merrill Markoe

#11. Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Vladimir Putin

#12. Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.

Bob Beauprez

#13. People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

Cherie Blair

#14. He began to wonder with genuine concern just what sort of shithead the Pentagon had foisted on him.

Joseph Heller

#15. That such people could accomodate conflicting worldly labels... was a talent of postcolonial life, evidence of adaptation by people who have had many different categories foisted on them by outsiders.

Eliza Griswold

#16. It was [Hugh's] omnipresent fear that some woman might be foisted on him who would turn out to be an adventuress and would blackmail him. This preoccupation made it almost impossible for him to engage a secretary.

Anthony Powell

#17. A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.

John Ciardi

#18. The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#19. One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

Jessica Ennis

#20. Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what I think it does, young man, you should get down on your knees and thank God for such foistingness!

Diana Gabaldon

#21. You can be whatever you want - so long as you're sure it's what you actually want, rather than one of two equally dodgy choices foisted onto you.

Caitlin Moran

#22. Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

Orhan Pamuk

#23. After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history

Josh McDowell

#24. A heroic figure ... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

Ezra Pound

#25. A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.

Thomas Carlyle

#26. My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

Billy Corgan

#27. Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety or need.

Leonard Mlodinow

#29. There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

Shunryu Suzuki

#30. I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations than those of decency.

J.M. Coetzee

#31. The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

Taya Kyle

#32. This society, promoted by its leaders as an egalitarian utopia, was in truth one of the most unequal societies on earth.

Peter Hitchens

#33. If wishes could be fishes, even beggars would eat.

Lili St. Crow

#34. There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don't really think most people really understand what they've seen.

Jerry Seinfeld

#35. In their perverted way all humanity imitates you. Yet they put themselves at a distance from you and exalt themselves against you. But even by thus imitating you they acknowledge that you are the creator of all nature and so concede that there is no palace where one can entirely escape from you.

Augustine Of Hippo

#36. The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.

David Hasselhoff