Quotes About Constraint

it's often better to be in chains than to be free.

Ciertamente, la libertad que hoy es posible es un arbusto raquítico. Pero, al fin y al cabo, es libertad que, al fin y al cabo, es un bien.

So hätte der Trapezkünstler ungestört leben können, wären nicht die unvermeidlichen Reisen von Ort zu Ort gewesen, die ihm äußerst lästig waren. Zwar sorgte der Impresario dafür, daß der Trapezkünstler von jeder unnötigen Verlängerung seiner Leiden verschont blieb: für die Fahrten in den Städten

I don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.

You can only do so much theatre.

Make profit a constraint, not an objective.

What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

Stevie wanted to find the right words, to comfort the child. She wanted to ask what had happened to Emma. But she felt constrained, afraid she would say something wrong. Her own mother had died when she was young, and she remembered a world of adults who meant well but just seemed to make everything worse.

We never arrive at fundamental propositions in the course of our investigation; we get to the boundary of language which stops us from asking further questions. We don't get to the bottom of things, but reach a point where we can go no further, where we cannot ask further questions.

Os loucos são livres e vivem presos por isso.

The first time we spoke, Mr. Ambraysas told me, 'Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

A Casa Verde é um cárcere privado – disse um médico sem clínica.

Que isto de método, sendo, como é, uma coisa indispensável, todavia é melhor tê-lo sem gravata nem suspensórios, mas um pouco à fresca e à solta, como quem não se lhe dá da vizinha fronteira, nem do inspetor de quarteirão. É como a eloquência, que há uma genuína e vibrante, de uma arte natural e feiticeira, e outra tesa, engomada e chocha.

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it?" "Yes." Mrs. Whatsit said. "You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

If everyone needs to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion.

When I look at the large green iron gate from my window it takes on the air of a prison gate. An unjust feeling, since I know I can leave the place whenever I want to, and since I know that human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self.

Les âmes semblables à la sienne se croient perdues, dès qu'elles ne sentent plus auprès d'elles tuteurs, rampes et garde-fous. De plus elles tolèrent mal chez autrui une liberté qu'elles résignent, et souhaitent d'obtenir par contrainte tout ce qu'on est prêt à leur accorder par amour.

Kant provides a more helpful answer. For him, these first semblances of virtue can be explained in terms of discipline, in other words, as a product of external constraint: what the child cannot do on his own because he has no instinct for it "others have to do … for him," and in this way "one generation educates the next.

is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances

What is most striking about the most powerful man in the world is not the power that he wields. It is how constrained he and his lieutenants are by forces that lie beyond their grasp and perhaps their understanding.