Top 328 Imposing Quotes & Sayings

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

America will regret imposing sanctions on Iran... they're already isolated in the world.

I can try to convince somebody else of my beliefs, but I should not be imposing.

Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices.

So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

On the stage you can get away with imposing the emotions on yourself, but with film it really has to come from inside. It's much more intense.

Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

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.

Photographers are always imposing

I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.... I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering... I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.

This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the whole world and every decision you make imposes an order on it. The question is to what extent it’s an idealized order I’m imposing or is it an order that grows out of what the world looks like.

Human beings thrive on imagination and pushing boundaries and limitations. Imposing limits when we don't actually have any true idea of what's possible is like imposing a steel trap over the mind.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

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.

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

Evangelism is not imposing anything on anyone; it is simply sharing the truth.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

He was a physically imposing presence - 6 feet tall and very broad in the shoulders - and an imposing intellectual presence as well. Whenever he was in a group, he dominated it.

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.

I was a hockey player, growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates. As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me.

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

You're not free if you can't marry the person you love because a county clerk is imposing his or her interpretation of religion on you.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

One of my first gigs was as a guest star, and I was supposed to be a big imposing character.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

Instead of imposing something, let it make itself.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Wind turbines are imposing structures and definitely not the kind of thing one wants to see from a golf course.