Top 52 Self Imposing Quotes
#1. Imposition stands starkly at odds with the basic character of the Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving - God's self-giving and human self-giving - and not about self-imposing.
Philip Yancey
#2. When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you've had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.
Heidi Reagan
#3. I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.
Elliott Erwitt
#4. Up the stairs I found an imposing headquarters, decorated with the portraits and busts of solemn, whiskered old darlings who, no doubt, bled their customers with leeches and passed on the information to alarmed small boys that self-abuse leads to blindness.
John Mortimer
#5. For 'The Terminator,' I was asked to drop a bit of weight to get less physically imposing because it wasn't about an athletic build; the build they were looking for was something more unassuming or boyish. And it was tough!
Jai Courtney
#6. People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.
Theresa May
#7. There was no doubt about it: Alexandra Finch Hancock was imposing from any angle; her behind was no less uncompromising than her front.
Harper Lee
#8. Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
John Stott
#9. My father was always suppressing the softer side of my nature; it seemed to have disappeared in the course of those boxing lessons, that's what boxing did to me. My father took away the real me and replaced all what I could have been by imposing his brutal regime of terror upon me.
Stephen Richards
#10. Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.
Jimmy Carter
#11. Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.
John Darnielle
#12. Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives
Barry Goldwater
#13. Stop imposing your pain on others. Resolve your hurts. A
Bill Graybill
#14. He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, - in no respect what is called fascinating, imposing or brilliant; and yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about him as naturally as about a warm hearth.
Louisa May Alcott
#15. Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#16. That which is imposing here on earth has always something of the quality of the fallen angel who is beautiful but without peace, great in his conceptions and exertions but without succes, proud and lonely.
Otto Von Bismarck
#17. Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
Gertrude Stein
#18. I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
Graham Coxon
#19. I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
John Chamberlain
#20. There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#21. The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#22. Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
Mitt Romney
#23. Never let your mind imprison your achievements by imposing disbelief on you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
Doris Lessing
#27. Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
Geraldine Ferraro
#28. The whole structure of the law has to be a dignified, imposing edifice and built on firm foundations, if it is going to stand. Whenever you violate the law, you are tearing down a part of that structure, regardless of what goal you may want to achieve.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#29. Everyone she knew was intimidated by him - by his intelligence, by his imposing height and strength, by his ethereal beauty - but she knew him as a man of flesh and earthy desire who loved her beyond comprehension.
Tiffany Reisz
#30. All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
Michael Kimmelman
#31. We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.
Colin Meloy
#32. The dummies and slackers, by their mere existence, are imposing a negative externality on the skilled and dedicated,
Avinash K. Dixit
#33. I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.
Emily Giffin
#34. I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.
Kenneth Eade
#35. Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet.
Pope Francis
#36. The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.
Marcus Du Sautoy
#37. I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.
Mike Lowry
#39. All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. Their eyes drifted directly behind her. At the same time she felt the presence of a rather large, imposing figure, then the sudden heat permeated the air around her. He's behind me, isn't he?
Madison Thorne Grey
#41. My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.
Mahatma Gandhi
#42. So I hope I've made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.
Martin Fowler
#43. The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#44. A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.
Mark Twain
#45. I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
Ian McKellen
#46. You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.
Damian Lewis
#47. If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.
Lynne Olson
#48. The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments ... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.
Hector Berlioz
#49. The mediation of a woman is capable of imposing on hatred certain qualities characteristic of affection, for example curiosity, carnal interest, the urge to cross the threshold of intimacy.
Milan Kundera
#50. I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. He had always seen his self-sufficiency as an admirable quality, a way of not imposing upon other people, but he could see now that it was an insult to those close to you.
Mark Haddon
#52. Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.
Tobsha Learner
