Imposed Quotes

#1. If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.

Stanley Sarnoff

#2. It was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.

Franz Kafka

#3. Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

Rick Warren

#4. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

Bianca Jagger

#6. We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

Angela Davis

#7. Self-imposed insanely impossible deadlines often help.

David Hieatt

#8. I'm not the first to want what I can't have, but my problem runs irreparably darker than that. My dark lust can't be sated by normal means, or even slightly less-than-normal means. Role playing and dominant games with their bullshit negotiations and imposed limits don't do it for me.

Skye Callahan

#9. The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

George Washington

#10. The dictatorship is embodied in the formal structure of the film (Days of 36). Imposed silence was one of the conditions under which we worked. The film is... made in such a way that the spectator realizes that censorship is involved.

Theodoros Angelopoulos

#11. All you need is a little space and a little time - a place to work, and some time to do it; a little self-imposed solitude and temporary captivity.

Austin Kleon

#12. Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.

Peggy Kopman-Owens

#14. Now she is inviting you to a seminar at the university, where books are analyzed according to all Codes, Conscious and Unconscious, and in which all Taboos are eliminated, the ones imposed by the dominant Sex, Class, and Culture.

Italo Calvino

#15. Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

Rajneesh

#16. A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.

R. Edward Freeman

#17. The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.

Billy Corgan

#18. Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.

Richard Flanagan

#19. In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered.

Clifford Allbutt

#20. No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

Paul Wolfowitz

#21. I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me - and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it.

Wilkie Collins

#22. Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Holbrook Jackson

#23. The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.

Tom Scholz

#24. The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.

Barton Gellman

#25. His mind was an enraged animal, bouncing off the bars of a magically imposed cage, and like an animal, he reacted blindly, striking against the barrier again and again, determined either to be free or to die. Hot

Raymond E. Feist

#26. Russia would not support anything which would be actually imposed on Syrians.

Sergei Lavrov

#27. The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.

Elliott Abrams

#28. How do we stand with others when the things that separate us are imposed at birth, when the separation haunts us and follows us day and night?

Don DeLillo

#29. The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.

Parker J. Palmer

#30. Life was imposed on her from outside

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#31. We got an international coalition [against Iran], and we imposed that. It was slow, patient diplomacy, nothing at all particularly headline-worthy. But then you got to the point where the negotiations - which I started and Secretary [John] Kerry completed - I think made the world safer.

Hillary Clinton

#32. I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.

Thomas Sowell

#33. We live today in cities and suburbs whose form and character we did not choose. They were imposed upon us, by federal policy, local zoning laws, and the demands of the automobile.

Andres Duany

#34. When wisdom arises, our inherent power as a being naturally arises as well, and then we begin to view things differently. We begin to see things based on the truth that we have found inside, not the truth that is
imposed by others on us.

M. Laurie Cantil

#35. It was never assumed in the United States that the citizen of a free country has a right to do whatever he pleases; on the contrary, social obligations were there imposed upon him more various than anywhere else.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#36. Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless.

Kathy Change

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

Emile Lahoud

#38. What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside their world, we left the natural one behind.

Katie Kacvinsky

#39. It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#40. Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.

Richard Alleine

#42. Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

Isaac Mayer Wise

#43. I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

Hume Cronyn

#44. We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Stephen Jay Gould

#45. The Greeks were more preoccupied with, where these ousted gods resided. That is: The fallen son's of God could go where humans were, but humans could not go where they were. According to Greek mythology, Tartarus was an imposed condition for bad gods
not bad humans. (page 10)

Michael Ben Zehabe

#46. I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others.

Mike Corbett

#47. Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

Sigmund Freud

#48. A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.

William Benton Clulow

#49. The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

Mikhail Bakunin

#50. The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military ... The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.

Majid Khadduri

#51. Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.

Naomi Wolf

#52. Except for food and medical supplies, the United States imposed a total embargo on Cuba on October 19, 1960.

Hank Bracker

#53. Everything was down to chance, that the world existed in a state of perpetual chaos, and only some primitive storytelling instinct, itself doubtless a hangover from religion, retrospectively imposed meaning on what might or might not have happened.

Julian Barnes

#54. So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

Thomas Jefferson

#55. I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.

Michael Newdow

#56. Like all people with nothing to do, he was very disciplined and stuck religiously to the schedule he had imposed on himself. He

Ajith Pillai

#57. I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

Joseph Addison

#58. The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

Denis Waitley

#59. 'Unexpected Legacy' reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation's first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.

Katie Hafner

#60. Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.

Alexei Panshin

#61. Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

Anthony De Jasay

#62. Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed

Bell Hooks

#63. Marian and I avoided all further reference to that other subject, which by her consent and mine, was not to be mentioned between us yet. It was not the less present in our minds
it was rather kept alive in them by the restraint which we had imposed on ourselves

Wilkie Collins

#64. I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline of a super-personal control, thus submitting myself ti the self-imposed law of dance composition

Mary Wigman

#65. One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts.

Paulo Coelho

#66. No slavery is more disgraceful," he quipped, "than one which is self-imposed.

Ryan Holiday

#67. In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

Edward Sapir

#68. For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Philip Roth

#69. The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

Benjamin Graham

#70. No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#71. Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Milton Friedman

#72. A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

J.B. Priestley

#73. Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.

Margaret Mitchell

#74. There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Van Wyck Brooks

#75. An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

Glenn Greenwald

#76. If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.

Sterling W. Sill

#77. Cannot be imposed, legislated, or decreed. They can only be cultivated, and

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#78. Corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

Arundhati Roy

#79. Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

David Mitchell

#80. There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

Murray Bookchin

#81. Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

Victoria Moran

#82. the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They

George Orwell

#83. A couple of years ago I was seated in an auditorium in Detroit where Reverend Cleage was explaining to a conference of priests that what they called "black separatists" were in reality men who recognized the implacability of a white-imposed separation.

John Howard Griffin

#84. A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.

John Kennedy Toole

#85. People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

Riccardo Tisci

#86. We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.

Fidel Castro

#87. My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.

Audre Lorde

#88. no empire imposed by force or otherwise has ever been without this feature: control of the indigenous by members of their own group.

Margaret Atwood

#89. For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#90. When we are freed from the rules and regulations that are so often imposed on us in the name of God, we discover that creativity is the natural result of spirituality. And if this is true, then our soul is the primary material for all artistic expression.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#91. We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.

Nelson Mandela

#92. The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

George Sand

#93. If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

Glenn T. Seaborg

#94. Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Renzo Piano

#95. I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

Daniel Inouye

#96. She could not help knowing it, the torch of her beauty; she carried it erect into any room that she entered; and after all, veil it as she might, and shrink from the monotony of bearing that it imposed on her, her beauty was apparent.

Virginia Woolf

#97. I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.

William, Saroyan

#98. I define workaholism as an obsessive-compulsive disorder that manifests itself through self-imposed demands, an inability to regulate work habits, and overindulgence in work to the exclusion of most other life activities.

Bryan E. Robinson

#99. Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations.

Nick Saban

#100. It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

Margaret Thatcher