Quotes About Constraint

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

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

All people are enslaved by something.

Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

Invinciblement, quelque chose l'attirait là. Il était prisonnier de sa propre liberté. Il ne pouvait s'arrêter. Il était obnubilé par ce qu'il voyait.

Speaking this language would be out of the question, given the limited bandwidth of the human larynx.

One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically - to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

Love is a cage only when you feel indebted to it, constrained by it, responsible to its owner.

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

Sometimes it's not possible to stay home, even if you want to.

And I wondered if these people too, who seemed able to move as they wished about the yard, were in truth constrained to behave as they did and were only pretending to be free, as we ourselves had done when we came in procession through the town.

nitrogen is the most common growth-limiting factor for all plant species, and yet evolution furnished only a small number of them with the means to alleviate this constraint.