Quotes About Constraint

How loose the silk. How quick the jailed up flavor ran free.

For almost seven weeks, the ships of the fleet sailed their leisurely way across the Atlantic. Since the ships' captains wanted to stay in contact, the fleet could sail no faster than its slowest vessel. That meant even the larger, faster vessels only made about five or six knots under ideal circumstances.

But so fluid a thing was love.It wasn't firm,he was learning, it wasn't a scripture;it was a wobbliness that lent itself to betrayal,taking the mold of whatever he poured he poured it into.And in fact,it was difficult to keep from pouring it into numerous vessels.It could be used for all kinds of purposes....He wished it were a constraint.It was truly beginning to frighten him.

They were trapped, by environment and finances, but mostly by the sick, twisted love that bound her parents together.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

La verdad es que eran como pájaros envejecidos y oscuros, con las pechugas palpitantes de haber volado mucho en un trozo de cielo muy pequeño.

The 18-minute rule isn't simply a good exercise to learn discipline. It's critical to avoid overloading your audience. Remember, constrained presentations require more creativity.

What we want, of course, what lies in the cupboard marked 'important,' is connection, love: If the deepest source of human hunger had a name, that would be it; if the boxes of constraint in which so many women live could be smashed to bits, that would be the tool, the sledgehammer that shatters emptiness and uncovers the hope buried beneath it.

People learn to love their chains

The crow commands, the captive must obey.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

Necessity has no law.

Time is a tyranny to be abolished.

Time is the tyrant of the body.

In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal.

I'd suggest putting your head between your knees, but I think that's physically impossible for you at the moment.

Our brains are way, way more complex than any computer we know how to make. They're way more creative. The input's pretty good, but the output is constrained by our tongues and jaws moving and us typing.