Quotes About Constraint

None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.

I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

I'm normally quite restrictive in the runs department.

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.

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Today, one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing? You answered... I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me from the obligation to act. You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Una esclava que se alegra es una esclava de todas formas.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that mazeis itself an enslavement for it voids every alternate and binds one ever more tightly in to the constraints that make a life.

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.

What you write down becomes fixed. It takes on the constraints of any tangible entity. It collapses into a reality estranged from the realm of its creation. It's a marker. A roadsign. You have stopped to get your bearings, but at a price. You'll never know where it might have gone if you'd left it alone to go there.

You know what a blivet is? What. A blivet is ten pounds of shit in a five pound sack.

Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life

Perhaps you're a slave to your own idea of yourself.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

Men are less free than they imagine; ah, far lessfree. The freest are perhaps least free.

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

To him, marriage was confining, which was a state he instinctively resisted.

Who first invented work, and bound the freeAnd holiday-rejoicing spirit down?

May I ask a question, Lucy?" "Go right ahead!" "Just why do you want to draw this line all the way around the world?" "Well, you know the old saying, Charlie Brown... You have to draw the line someplace!

Everytime there's a good suggestion, someone brings up the budget.

If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.

One is forced to examine one's life when trapped in the wall by a Murphy bed.