Quotes About Constraint

When a nationwide injunction constrains a significant executive policy, the Justice Department has little choice but to seek emergency relief.

Beautiful flames, can destroy so many things—prison walls that hold you, stitches that bind you fast.

Whenever the mind tries to ascend into realms of new and sublime abstraction, matter persists and confines it in the cellar of habit.

Routines are unyielding. They take hold like lice.

Tenía tantas posibilidades de elegir como un buzo dentro de una jaula en la olla de las Aleutianas. Las utilizó.

You will find in the end, my dear friend, that there is nothing more oppressie than freedom.

Oh, I'm terribly sorry, but I can't." "I'd love to, but I'm afraid it's impossible." "Unfortunately, I can't, but I hope you can find someone." It

In such a square context, we grow in bent shapes, our love made beautiful by our restraints.

Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

your hand but have to let it fly. But it might fly away, and that is why you need a cage to control it.

Tu n'obtiendras rien de la contrainte. Tu pourras à la rigueur les contraindre à l'immobilité et au silence et, ce résultat durement acquis, tu seras bien avancé. (p. 13)

Embrace constraint. What you get in return is the art and craft of editing your own life, weeding out what is and isn't necessary.

Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions

If this book were limited to 140 pages, it would end here.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

We can't always have our druthers.

If I didn't have to stay I'd leave.

The point is rather that, so far as Wittgenstein can see, Pascal offers a description of a certain state of affairs without genuinely submitting to the constraints which the endeavor to provide an accurate representation of reality imposes. Her fault is not that she fails to get things right, but that she is not even trying.

Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

It does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them, and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one's acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from coming into being; it does not tyrannize, it hinders. Alexis de Tocqueville

Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will

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