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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.
The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.
Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.
The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law.
Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.
Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
If there is one thing French Muslims want, it is to be rid of the daily pressures imposed on them by Islamic fundamentalists.
In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.
Denying women the right to drive has imposed huge costs on Saudi citizens.
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.
I have always had deep concerns about anyone's philosophy being imposed on the entire community.
To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.
There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.
To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.
The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don't think that's fair.
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
I was kind of overwhelmed by the idea that we are just balls of energy and that we have imposed terms on feelings.
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.
The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.
I thought that the league-imposed restriction on drinking had expired at the end of the regular season.
I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.
Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
Heterosexuality as we know it is so plain boring, dumb, dull and artificial, it has to be imposed upon people, otherwise they don't take it.
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.
Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it.
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.
Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.
I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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.
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
