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Quotes About Constraining

Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the Rock-counsciousness of the promise given her, He goeth before.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
The two goals of liberation and social justice are not obviously compatible, any more than were the liberty and equality advocated at the French Revolution. If liberation involves the liberation of individual potential, how do we stop the ambitious, the energetic, the intelligent, the good-looking and the strong from getting ahead, and what should we allow ourselves by way of constraining them?
~ Roger Scruton
The tension between enabling and constraining democracy is therefore the heart of democratic constitutionalism.
~ Russell Hardin
It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.
~ Christine Gregoire
We need to break free of the rationalism constraining our politics over the last few decades; such rationalism is too narrow to adequately describe our real problems or to adequately address them.
~ Marianne Williamson
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
She was rich; she had the luxury of having faith. But then, Faten thought, Noura also had the luxury of having no faith; she'd probably found the hijab too constraining and ended up taking it off to show off her designer clothes. That was the thing with money. It gave you choices.
~ Laila Lalami
There is a love constraining me To go and seek the lost; I yield, O Lord, my all to Thee To save at any cost!
~ Leonard Ravenhill
As long as almost no new social housing is built, gross inequality will persist, and class structures will grow ever more constraining.
~ Dawn Foster
Being on television is a little constraining. You spend six to eight months filming, and you get stuck in that gear. I feel like doing movies is a lot more my style.
~ Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
~ Plato
Very recently, economists have gained a better understanding of the structure of taboos. Their purpose is to protect a sense of identity by shielding people from evidence that might challenge it.2 Taboos save you from the need to cover your ears by constraining what is said.
~ Paul Collier
And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.
~ Isaiah 29:2