Quotes About Constraint

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

All the world's a cage.

Het verschrikkelijke hier is dat ge al de tijd van de wereld hebt en dat z' u niks laten doen.

The material world constrain us, often with gret beneficence, to see each person and thing in its time and place, its historical context. But mental life doesn't so constrain us. It is porous, open to air and light, swings forward while swaying back, scatters its stripes in all directions, and delights to find itself beached beside something invented only that morning or instead standing beside an altar from three millennia ago.

For him [Kafka], the most tormenting thing about his notion of marriage must have been its ruling out the possibility of one's ever becoming so small as to be able to vanish: one has to be there.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

Hey! Not so fast, or we might arrive on time. Freedom means never arriving on time—never, never!

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.

en una dictadura, la expresión estar en libertad no significa lo mismo que ser libre.

Comment pourrais-tu aimer quelq'un avec le plâtre qui t'immobilise le coeur? On t'a imposé trop de calculs pour que tu puisses aimer. Si tu aimes quelqu'un, c'est qu'on t'a mal éduqué.

While the agreement provides a level of constraint on Iran's nuclear weapons program, it confers legitimacy on their nuclear threshold status, an unprecedented shift for a country with so many entanglements.

The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

I am pretty controlled I have to say.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.