Quotes About Constraint

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

Tighter than a straight man's butt cheeks in prison

The command to be free is a double bind

What was personal gain but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And what was power but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually began to restrict one's options, and reduce one's freedom. One became a servant of one's wealth or power, constrained to spend all one's time protecting it.

Shikata ga nai," Maya said sardonically. There is no other choice.

my mother used to say that nothing limited the human spirit like propriety.

I told you, we must cut out imagination. In everyone...Extirpate imagination. Nothing but surgery, nothing but surgery will do!

A noun is a self-defeating wall, an adjective is a tenacious window.

You can do many things with bayonets, but it is rather uncomfortable to sit on them.

Not that everything is possible.

You can do many things with bayonets, but it is rather uncomfortable to sit on them.' A

There are reasonable limitations. I believe I can't fly. I believe I can't touch the sky.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Even rich people can only stand in one room at a time.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

When we're forced to do something, suddenly the time is there. Which means it's there all the time, but we've just chosen to limit ourselves by believing that it isn't.

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

Susie, what shall I do - there is'nt room enough; not half enough, to hold what I was going to say. Wont you tell the man who makes sheets of paper, that I hav'nt the slightest respect for him!

People can only do what they can do.

one centimeter can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

Constance Lane tried to frown, but there wasn't enough slack skin across her brow.