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Quotes About Constraint

Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.
~ Anne Mallory
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
~ Anne Sullivan
The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)
~ Anne Tyler
L'escalier qui monte de la cuisine aux chambres s'est révélé trop étroit pour le passage du cercueil.
~ Annie Ernaux
Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop.
~ Van Heflin
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
~ Euripides
the economy "is like a bird. You can't hold it in your hand but have to let it fly. But it might fly away, and that is why you need a cage to control it.
~ Ezra F. Vogel
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Someone who has never known constraint can have no concept of freedom.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Sou definitivamente contra o definido, porque o definido é o bastante e o bastante não basta.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Pertencer - eis a banalidade. Credo, ideal, mulher ou profissão - tudo isso é a cela e as algemas. Ser é estar livre.
~ Fernando Pessoa
No solo quien nos odia o nos envidia nos limita y oprime; quien nos ama no menos nos limita.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
~ Mae West
Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.
~ Chuck Zito
Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
~ Iain Duncan Smith
If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.
~ Martin Cooper
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
~ William Golding
I actually work better within restrictions. When you leave everything wide open, things tend to get a little convoluted. So when you give me those restrictions and I start to use my brain creatively to work around those, that's when things get interesting.
~ Kenny Omega
The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.
~ Rei Kawakubo
But at least I am in a place larger than a teacup. I once dwelt in a cup of tea, and on that occasion, I sensed the constraints of the space.
~ Robert Olen Butler
What cannot be cannot be, besides witch, it's impossible.
~ Roberto Bolano
The difficulty of digging is an important constraint. Not everything should be convenient.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
When there is pain, the body has no freedom of movement. Without pain, the body is free.
~ Lisa See