Quotes About Constraint

Necessity brings him [Dante] here, not pleasure.

I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

the borrower is slave to the lender

Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.

The sheer challenge of survival in premodern societies always constrained the behavior of the poor.

for love cometh of the heart and not by constraint." "That is true," said the king; "for love is free.

When sufficiently oblivious to their status as audience, the observers of a finite game become so absorbed in its conduct that they lose the sense of distance between themselves and the players. It is they, quite as much as the players, who win or lose. For this reason the audience absorbs in itself the same politics of resentment that moves players to show they are not what they think others think they are. The audience is under the same constraint to disprove the judgment.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

One's thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation.

He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

He giggled and sniggered. He would have laughed out loud but he didn't have the room.

One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can't.

Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.

All this red tape and form-filling. That's what comes of a bureaucratic state. Can't go where you like and do as you please anymore! Somebody's always asking questions.

Kathrine had seldom had that useful thing, a 'day off'. 'But in a way, being tied physically gives you lots of scope mentally. You're always free to think.

Leaving the E.U. is only the first phase of the Brexiter agenda to shake us free of the laws, rules and rights that many see as a constraint on the implementation of their frighteningly rightwing vision of Darwinian capitalism.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

The problem is good has a limit, bad None!

the more rigidly constructed your game is, the more limited it will be.*

The classical author who writes his tragedy observing a certain number of known rules is freer than the poet who writes down whatever comes into his head and is slave to other rules of which he knows nothing.