#imposing

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

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

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#does #hardly #imposing #insignificant #seem

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

— John Chamberlain

#imposing #interested #material #me #more

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

#being #feel #imposing #meet #people

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

#diverse #federal #federal government #going #government

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. ↗

— Dan Savage

#expected #imposing #made #men #mistake

I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#arty #big #build #facial #good

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

— Lance Morrow

#became #both #church #imposing #itself