Quotes About Constraint

Where there is superior force, I serve under constraint; where there is power, I serve willingly.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.

Freedom comes with the impossibility of choosing.

Procrustes bed is a phrase meaning any difficult situation which cannot be changed but to which man must adapt himself.

As soon as you create something you create a boundary.

The wrists will then also be shackled

I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.

I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.

So while [Upholds] live by the motto, 'Discipline brings freedom,' [Rebels] live by the motto: 'Freedom is my discipline.

human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.

Doy un paso atrás otra vez. La puerta está atrancada. Ahora hay una forma menos de entrar. Por supuesto, también hay una forma menos de salir.

True love in my view can only flourish in conditions where there is a mixture of freedom and constraint. An imposed love, sanctioned by law and blessed by a priest does not really seem the same thing at all

The trade-off between speed and image quality is a key constraint of first-person action games, and the job of developing a workable engine involves constantly optimizing both elements. Gamers dream of the day they'll be able to haul their arsenals through three-dimensional environments of photographic clarity, playing 'Myst' with a meat ax.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

He felt strangled by helplessness.

Magic is an honor, until it's a shackle.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Glorious,' said Steerpike, 'is a dictionary word. We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.

To be oppressed means to be deprived of your ability to choose.