Constraining Quotes

#1. By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

Alain De Botton

#2. Whether children have first amendment rights is a vexed legal question, but what is not in question is that they someday will. Constraining them from expressing their views is no preparation for exercising those rights.

Crispin Sartwell

#3. Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

Etgar Keret

#4. The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is ... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

Thorstein Veblen

#5. Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial - particularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, society - and does his best to avoid it.

Soseki Natsume

#6. Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' risk management would have been a more effective and surgical approach to constraining the housing bubble than a general increase in interest rates.

Ben Bernanke

#7. This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination and reinforcing attitudes that privilege the forces of law and order as against the crosscurrents of freedom and dissent.

Richard A. Falk

#8. They were inventing their own type of relationship, one that wasn't officially recognized by history or immortalized in poetry or song, but which felt truer and less constraining.

Hanya Yanagihara

#9. Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#10. Our modern culture's idea of freedom is wholly negative. We are free as long as no one is constraining our choices. However, this concept is too thin to be adequate.

Timothy J. Keller

#11. I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#12. It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.

Christine Gregoire

#13. I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.

Sam Rockwell

#14. 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

#15. Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except ... me?

Alan Moore

#16. Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Stephen Jay Gould

#17. I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional.

Charlotte Casiraghi

#18. I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.

Michelle Gagnon

#19. There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.

Eddie Campbell

#20. Constraining business is absolutely wrong.

Sergey Galitsky

#21. 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

#22. Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

Jimmy Buffett

#23. Shush me again, I dare you." - Annabelle

Gena Showalter

#24. Maxim's voice, clear and strong, Will someone take my wife outside?She is going to faint.

Daphne Du Maurier

#25. We are all poor in the face of God's majesty. Not all of us realise it.

Radhe Maa

#26. I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

Deborah Moggach

#27. If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday

Carrie Vaughn

#28. The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories.

Milan Kundera

#29. Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#30. I wish they'd conduct a national poll to find out who feels out of place and who doesn't. Just to get the numbers, you know? To get a feel for how many of us there are.

John Darnielle

#31. King Chase Charming is the second oldest and is married to Queen Sleeping Beauty,

Chris Colfer

#32. It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

David Livingstone