Quotes About Constraint

You worked with what you had, you did what you could, and you made choices based on need.

I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

Obviously it's always hard when you tell a patient you can't help them, because maybe it's a physical constraint with the surgery, but in regards to telling a patient that they're not realistic and they're not appropriate psychological candidates, we're pretty used to it.

What is armor after all but a cage that moves with you?

Nevertheless, the number of hoots I give for them is restricted to less than two.

whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.

Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.

The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.

You can only do what you can no matter how you try.

Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!

My brain won't stretch to this right now. It doesn't fit!

Needs must, and so on.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

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 another.