Quotes About Constraint

Se, nesta vida, me quisessem de novo deportar, uma coisa eu saberia: há coisas primeiras que já querem as segundas, mesmo contra o nosso querer. O que é que me compele a manter estas ligações. Porque quero eu, à noite, ter direito à minha miséria. Porque é que não consigo ser livre. Porque obrigo o campo de trabalho a obedecer-me. Saudades de casa. Como se eu precisasse.

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.

was proud of what he did. He thought if you let the people read God's word for themselves, Christendom would fall apart. There would be no more government, no more justice.' 'He believed this? Truly?' 'That we needed the constraint of ignorance? Yes.' 'He did not give much credit to his fellow man.

La moral no es más que ese famoso círculo de tiza alrededor de la gallina: sólo encierra a los que creen en ella

You're the only one I can talk to, Call," said Jasper. "You mean because I'm chained to this floor and can't get away?

humans live much longer in captivity than they do in the wild.

If we didn't have fear, imagine the creativity in the world. Fear holds us back every step of the way.

I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.

If you take that away from me, and every other opportunity to not quite toe the line," Willing said, "then however many amusing things I'm at liberty to do, I don't feel free. If I don't feel free, I'm not free." I don't feel free, Willing did not add, and I have not felt free since you and yours jammed this fleck of metal into my neck.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

This human body is very much a vehicle that's used to the constraints of time but once the body is old and used up our minds go into an eternal space.

He loved her all he could; but he couldn't love her very much.

He was blind to self-constraints, like an animal incapable of perceiving certain colors.

Oulipo ends where the work begins.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

Employment is the biggest form of slavery

You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

Sometimes, we have to turn our camera to a mirror to shoot something, and people think, 'Oh, that's very stylish.' Yes it is, but at the same time, we did it because we are shooting in a very small space, and that was our only option.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

La nécessité nous délivre de l'embarras du choix. Necessity delivers us from the difficulty of choice.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.