#imposing

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

— Graham Coxon

#empty #germany #good #huge #i

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#camps #groups #imposing #lebanon #operating

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#great #imposing #rather #responsibility #too

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#between #come #divide #fairness #him

Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the skateboard park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man'. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#character #described #fat #freeing #get

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#blind #crime #does #dream #else

An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other. ↗

— Fred Upton

#congressional #creating #divides #economic #economic growth

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#corollary #freedom #generate #how #imposing

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

#already #been #death #estate #estate tax

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

— Edward Tufte

#cognitive #i #i think #important #imposing