#imposes

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ↗

— Richard Schickel

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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. ↗

— Mark Strand

#either #exists #formal #i #i believe

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#art #chess #game #i #imposes

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#brings #courage #energies #highest #human

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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