Quotes About Constraint

A golden cage is still a cage.

But a monster," he said, "she always has a place. She may have all the glory her teeth can snatch. She will not be loved for it, but she will not be constrained either. So whatever foolish sorrow you harbor, forget it. I think it may be said that you improved her.

And it was okay because it had to be. There wasn't any other choice. Sometimes it is a relief not to have a choice. I will have to get Meyer to explain this concept to me.

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She was not allowed to write to him

He wanted to leave, but now it was his fate that held him. Sometimes, when we are labeled, when we are branded, our brand becomes our calling: Wilbur Larch felt himself called.

All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

At that word, Fates, her eyes flashed. She was a goddess of argument, born from the bright, relentless mind of Zeus. If she was forbidden something, even by the three gray goddesses themselves, she would not simply submit. She would set about parsing the constraint down to its atoms, and try to eke a way through.

It was Daedalus who answered. A golden cage is still a cage.

But then there are those who wear their destinies like nooses, whose lives run straight as planks, however they try to twist it.

20. Fucking leaves everything as it is. Fucking may in no way interfere with the actual use of language. For it cannot give it any foundation either. It leaves everything as it is.

Time is a freedom, age a constraint. The cat, apparently, does not know this constraint.

Then came cheap oil, electricity, and the motorized centrifugal pump. Finally freed from all constraints but nature's (irrigation would last only as long as the finite aquifer held out), the farmers began pumping in the finest California tradition—which is to say, as if tomorrow would never come.

In point of fact, we always discover after the event that our adversaries had a reason for taking the side they do take, and one that does not depend on the degree to which that side is in the right, and that those who think as we do have been constrained to do so by, if their moral nature is too contemptible to be invoked, intelligence, and if they have no great acumen, uprightness.

You have five minutes," I said. "Of course, because any more time would make this too easy.

I can't do that, Harry said. I don't have the math for it.

No se necesita valor para hacer una cosa cuando es lo único que puedes hacer.

She's about as wide open as a fist.

Actuality is a running impoverishment of possibility.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

nothing is more limited than vice. In that sense one can really use a common expression and say that one is always turning in the same vicious circle. "How

as great poets do when the tyranny of rhyme forces them into the discovery of their finest lines.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

We are all—even young lovers—affected by our own struggle for survival and by our world's assumptions regarding what is correct and successful. Not one of us, not even a heroine, escapes the constraint.