Quotes about constraint (16 Quotes)

For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.

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.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Our capital base is not a constraint on our development and particularly the achievement of our budgets for 2002.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.

But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is to be avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

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

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

To drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in and open a door and answer a telephone becomes incredibly time-consuming, ... Every scene for me is about, where am I going to park the cane When I pick this up, where am I going to put the cane That's a physical constraint.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.