Never Impose Quotes

#1. A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#2. Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

Abbie Hoffman

#3. Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.

Confucius

#4. I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.

JR

#5. There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

Abbas Kiarostami

#6. Always respect other peoples beliefs, and never impose your beliefs on others.

Anthony R. Davis

#7. One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

Albert Einstein

#8. The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them.

Morton T. Kelsey

#9. Never forget: we are alive within mysteries." - Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

#10. You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose.

T.D. Jakes

#11. I was wrong to try and impose something of my humanity on you, when being human never did me any good

Sara Baume

#12. However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

Claudio Hummes

#13. Do you suppose she's a wildflower?

Lewis Carroll

#14. 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

#15. We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

John Ashcroft

#16. The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

Immanuel Kant

#17. Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.

Rebecca Solnit

#18. I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.

Robert M. Gates

#19. In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

James Surowiecki

#20. Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if ... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.

Georges Braque

#21. Reckless," he said. "You know, when I first showed up at the Institute, Alec called me reckless so many times that I went and looked it up in the dictionary

Cassandra Clare

#22. Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.

David Brooks

#23. In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.

Margaret Thatcher

#24. The brother is a burden to the Christian, precisely because he is a Christian. For the pagan the other person never becomes a burden at all. He simply sidesteps every burden that others may impose upon him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#25. 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

#26. Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.

Eileen Simpson

#27. I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

Sandra Brown

#28. But if we're going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it."
Toshak shrugged. "Do as you wish," he said. "Occasion or not, as long as they're all dead, I'm happy.

John Flanagan

#29. Don't be afraid to make demands on yourself and push yourself beyond the comfortable limits of what you think you can accomplish; you'll never exhaust your reservoir of potential for accomplishment and achievement. The only limits we possess are the ones we impose upon ourselves.

Cary A. Friedman

#30. Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

Honore De Balzac

#31. Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose.

Uell Stanley Andersen

#32. Because in my nature I have always run to pie, whilst in his nature he has always run to mystery.

Mark Twain

#33. Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

John Perry Barlow

#34. They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.

Dave Kopel

#35. After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Edward Hopper

#36. I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

Robert Smith

#37. I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.

Bernie Mac