Quotes About Constraint

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

can't put the gun in

She said working for the government, you need to imagine you are tied down, Gulliver-style. And if you want to even wiggle your big toe, first you need to ask permission. And that if you can imagine that and still imagine getting things done, you'll get things done.

The production of a compelling scenario is likely to constrain future thinking," wrote Danny and Amos. "There is much evidence showing that, once an uncertain situation has been perceived or interpreted in a particular fashion, it is quite difficult to view it in any other way.

The trouble with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner. You can't fuck yourself into a corner. That's a man talking, muttered Hana.

More than any other institution, the American industrial animal farm offers a nightmarish glimpse of what Capitalism can look like in the absence of moral or regulatory constraint.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

He loved her all he could; but he couldn't love her very much.

Si la souffrance contraint à la créativité, cela ne signifie pas qu'il faille être contraint à la souffrance pour devenir créatif.

Despite the absence of fetters, chains, and guards, the doctor was forced to submit to his unfreedom, which looked imaginary.

The box is only temporary.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

I long for a noble escape from freedom

Oh beautiful flower," she mocked him, "to see you grow and burst your bonds.

am I to spend all the best part of my life in this wretched bondage, forcibly suppressing my rage at the idleness the apathy and the hyperbolical & most asinine stupidity of these fatheaded oafs and on compulsion assuming an air of kindness, patience & assiduity?

Esto del tiempo es complicado, me agarra por todos lados. Me empiezo a dar cuenta poco a poco de que el tiempo no es como una bolsa que se rellena. Quiero decir que aunque cambie el relleno, en la bolsa no cabe más que una cantidad y se acabó.

A man is always more than a man and always less than a man, more than a man because he has in himself all that jazz suggests and even anticipates, and less than a man because he has made an aesthetic and sterile game out of this liberty, a chessboard where one must be bishop or knight, a definition of liberty which is taught in school, in the very schools where the pupils are never taught ragtime rhythm of the first notes of the blue, and so forth and so on.

Urgh. How frustrating. I don't even have time to gloat.

Bringing your intimate relationship into the public arena and yet not being able to express yourself freely can really suffocate you.

The rule of law constitutes a basic protection of individuals against tyrannical government. But in the second half of the twentieth century, law lost its focus as a constraint on government and became instead an instrument for widening the scope of government.

Unser Wille will oft, weil er muss

cercava di sostituire la parola scrivania con la parola tavolo … in scrivania sentiva prigionia, agonia, tirannia. Mentre in tavolo sentiva il fruscio di un refolo, il sibilo del volo. Tavolo fluttuava, scrivania no.

The Prison-House of Language

Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are likely to continue for generations after one is gone.