Impinged Upon Quotes

#1. The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

Isaiah Berlin

#2. [I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characterized the last fifty or so years, there has been an accompanying oversensitivity that, in practice, keeps us atomized and more likely to be manipulated and have our rights impinged upon.

Darren O'Donnell

#3. The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don't is because my angels keep me standing up.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase "of course" or its equivalent.

Donald Ervin Knuth

#5. The 'Cold War' impinged on the daily lives of Americans. The wars after 11 September 2001 have been fought without the general American population having to make any sacrifices. It goes on, and so do we.

Stanley Hauerwas

#6. Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To keep our students reading, we have to let them.

Donalyn Miller

#7. The Framers [of the Constitution] ... created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.

William O. Douglas

#8. I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.

Avan Jogia

#9. For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Roger Mudd

#10. Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Mark Twain

#11. impinged on the normal nightly Holcomb noises - on the keening hysteria of coyotes, the dry scrape of scuttling tumbleweed, the racing, receding wail of locomotive

Truman Capote

#12. Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.

George Steiner

#13. The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

Ashly Lorenzana