Quotes About Constraint

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

If an eagle be imprisonedon the back of a coin, and the coin tossedinto the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.

Too many things can be free in this world, but freedom is never among them.

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life.

Uno no siempre hace lo que quiere, uno no siempre puede, por eso estoy aquí, mirándote y echándote de menos

Pero todo fue siempre demasiado obligatorio como para que pudiera sentirme feliz

No hay que prometer nada porque las promesas son horribles ataduras, y cuando uno se siente amarrado tiende a liberarse, eso es fatal».

freedom of expression is great for art, but lousy for engineering.

There is a statue of limitation.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

Even if the tutoring was only for one hour a day, he told his mother, 'I shall feel that I have got to be back at a certain time and it would hang like a dark shadow over my pleasure'.