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Quotes About Constraint

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.
~ Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things
And nature must obey necessity.
~ William Shakespeare
Rigidity of order is the artefact and sediment of the human agents ' freedom.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
un mundo en el que cualquier otra alternativa resultaba inimaginable.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
a constraint should be regarded as a stimulus for positive change—we can choose to use it as an impetus to explore something new and arrive at a breakthrough.
~ Adam Morgan
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
~ Aimee Bender
Most people who are paid to use a tool feel constrained not to complain about that tool, but it doesn't stop them from feeling frustrated and unhappy about it.
~ Alan Cooper
In our narratives we may signify without constraint.
~ Alan Moore
How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
~ Robert Browning
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life
~ Egon Schiele
There are certain things in life that have limits, but you don't unless you impose limits on yourself.
~ Grant Cardone
Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
The world isn't the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.
~ Jesse Ball
The last free place in America is a parking spot.
~ Jessica Bruder
Breakdown occurs either because of too much possibility or too little; philistinism, as we observed earlier, knows its real enemy and tries to play it safe with freedom.
~ Ernest Becker
Nobody likes to life anchors.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Sînt deja închis. Cum sînt toti. Închis si totodata prea liber.
~ Eugen Ionescu
What I want and what's possible aren't necessarily compatible.
~ Andrew Martin
Had we but world enough, and time,This coyness, lady, were no crime.
~ Andrew Marvell
You are confined only by the walls you build yourself...
~ Andrew Murphy
There's no prison worse than "I promise.
~ Andrew Smith
incontinence".
~ Andrew Tate
I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.
~ Andy Couturier