Foisted Upon Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Thomas Carlyle

#4. 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

#5. 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

#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. 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

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

Daniel O'Malley

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

Joseph Heller

#10. 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

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

Ezra Pound

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

Richard Siken

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Robert Greene

#21. 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

#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. 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

#24. 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

#25. The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

Frank Chodorov

#26. When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

Boris Becker

#27. The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare

#28. 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

#29. I am the gaiaphage.

Michael Grant

#30. I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

Candy Crowley

#31. 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

#32. What happens when a sheepdog gets bit by a wolf?"
"Duh. It becomes a wolf."
"No. It becomes a sheepdog that fights with the lawlessness and savagery of a wolf.

Karen Marie Moning

#33. 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

#34. In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.

Susanna Clarke