Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
F. D. R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.
I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.
In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
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.
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.
We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same. He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
Outside of the marriage context, can you think of any other rational basis, reason, for a state using sexual orientation as a factor in denying homosexuals benefits or imposing burdens on them? Is there any other rational decision-making that the government could make? Denying them a job, not granting them benefits of some sort, any other decision?
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt - are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others.
Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So you may be a Christian and say "my morality is based on the Bible. " But if it doesn't line up with the way they think it should line up, now you got a problem with them. And then you can say, "I'm more in line with the Bible," but you don't care about the Bible, so they are like 'why are you imposing these difficult rules on me? I don't even believe in that. ' So you just have an interesting and sticky situation.
When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.
