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It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms. Autumns reward western Kansas for the evils at the remaining seasons impose: winter`s rough Colorado winds and hip-high, sheep slaughtering snows; the slushes and the strange land fogs of spring; and summer, when even crows seek the puny shade, and the tawny infinitude of wheatstalks bristle, blaze

- Truman Capote

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

- Alan Rickman

I`ve repeatedly said that for people as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors. We make pictures and that`s about all we have in common. Maybe that`s enough. Wives shouldn`t feel obligated to accompany their husbands to a ball game, husbands do look a bit silly attending morning coffee breaks with the neighborhood wives when most men are out at work. Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other...You can`t spend a lifetime breathing down each other`s necks.

- Paul Newman

I believe that drugs are basically of more use to the audience than to the artist. I think that the illusion of oneness with the universe, and absorption with the significance of every object in your environment, and the pervasive aura of peace and contentment is not the ideal state for an artist. It tranquilizes the creative personality, which thrives on conflict and on the clash and ferment of ideas. The artist`s transcendence must be within his own work; he should not impose any artificial barriers between himself and the mainspring of his subconscious. One of the things that`s turned me against LSD is that all the people I know who use it have a peculiar inability to distinguish between things that are really interesting and stimulating and things that appear to be so in the state of universal bliss that the drug induces on a "good" trip. They seem to completely lose their critical faculties and disengage themselves from some of the most stimulating areas of life. Perhaps when everything is beautiful, nothing is beautiful.

- Stanley Kubrick

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

- Boris Yeltsin

No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy.

- Nick Clooney

To compare me with Goya is a nonsense. Critics speak of Goya because they don`t know anything about Quevedo, Theresa of Avila, the picaresque literature, Galdòs, (Ramón del Valle-Inclán) and others . . . Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a second-rate writer like (Ernest Hemingway). (John Steinbeck) is important due to American guns. Had (John Dos Passos) and (William Faulkner) been born in Paraguay or in Turkey, who`d read them?

- Luis Buñuel

I don`t think we played with the heart and desire that we usually play with. We didn`t come out and impose our will on this team. This league is strange like that, you look to come out and win every game but things happen. Some nights it doesn`t go for you and tonight was one of those nights.

- Ben Wallace

It`s a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

- Karolina Kurkova

The fact that Democrat leaders in Texas and nationally are attempting to use the criminal-justice system to achieve the political victories that they failed to win at the ballot box makes them no better than Third World despots who impose their political will by jailing their opponents.

- James Ellis

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

- Ron Paul

France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

- Laurent Fabius

Our 600 employees in Maine can breathe a sign of relief that this referendum is not going forward. We were always hopeful that the effort to impose a crippling new tax on Maine`s bottled water companies would not gain sufficient public support.

- Tom Brennan

The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn`t believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.

- Ken Mehlman

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, `The church is not meant to be the master of the state.` We don`t sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people`s throats.

- Jim Wallis

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

- Oriana Fallaci

(The E.U. has been pressuring Washington to impose similar sanctions, but the Bush administration wanted to give Karimov one last chance to renew cooperation.) The United States is going to look very closely at whether Karimov responds to our message, and, if not, we will draw conclusions, ... We`re not talking about six months. My purpose was not to drag out the process.

- Daniel Fried

Politicians have limited power. They can`t impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

- Cal Thomas

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

- James Monroe

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

- Barney Frank

It`s about us going out there trying to impose our game on them and them trying to do the same to us and whoever does best will come out best.

- Martin Johnson

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

- Madalyn Murray-O'Hair

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

- Edward Hopper

Christianity stands for freedom, we don`t want to impose our religion on everyone else. We just don`t want secular humanist values or homosexual values to be forced upon us under the guise of anti-harassment laws, speech codes, hate crime laws, or sensitivity training.

- David Limbaugh

To impose upon another man`s freedom to kill, or his freedom to help to kill, to recruit to kill, is not to violate his person in a fundamental way.

- Al Hostetler

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

- Al Nash

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

- Alan McDonald

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

- Alan Reiter

And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

- Albert Anderson

I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don`t permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don`t exacerbate the problem.

- Albert Anderson

Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.

- Albert Anderson

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

- Alessandro Banchi

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.

- Aliasghar Soltaniyeh

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

- Alicia Dlugosh

Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

- Alison Mau

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

- Allan Wade

I don`t accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

- Allen Alley

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

- Alvin Franco

Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.

- Amanda Vail

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

- Amitabh Ray

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

- Amitabh Ray

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

- Amy Ernest

Beyond the concerns with freedom, there are concerns about the U.N. using its control of the Internet as a means to impose new international taxes.

- Andre Caminada

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

- Andrea Peiro

It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.

- Andrei Krivtsov

There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

- Andrei Krivtsov

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

- Andrew Forman

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

- Andrew Forman

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn`t be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

- Andrew Leach

This imprisonment is shameful for a country like Poland, which has just joined the European Union and which is the sole member state to impose prison sentences on journalists for offences of opinion.

- Ann Darrin