Quotes About Being Constrained

#1. True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Jonathan Edwards

#2. I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

Joanne Harris

#3. Military debriefs have a similar purpose. We can all fail but we all need to learn from failure. We need to manage the size of the risk, and we need to give people the environment to succeed without being constrained by fear of failure.

Damian McKinney

#4. The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.

Alister E. McGrath

#5. In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

Henri Matisse

#6. A soft knock sounded. Amaranthe feared Sicarius had come to collect her for another round of training, but he didn't usually bother knocking. Or being constrained by door locks.

Lindsay Buroker

#7. I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

Lynn Abbey

#8. The United States is home to 60 million pigs. It was home to 60 million pigs in 1990, too, and those pigs produced about 15.4 billion pounds of meat. Now, the same number of pigs produce 21.7 billion pounds of meat

Andy Sharpless

#9. Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.

Deborah Day

#10. He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.

Jonathan Maberry

#11. He could have my body. He could have my pleasure. He could have my desire. But I couldn't give him my trust.

Laurelin Paige

#12. I don't suffer of anything that I lost.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#13. Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of Heaven if not You? Who quickens life in the womb if not You? Therefore, God of All Virtue and Power, sain us and shield us with Your Swift Sure Hand.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#14. Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.

Solange Knowles

#15. Power is spreading, and long-established, big players are increasingly being challenged by newer and smaller ones. And those who have power are more constrained in the ways they can use it.

Moises Naim

#16. No obligation. Nor any restriction or limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor are you bound by any circumstances or situations, nor constrained by any Code or law. Nor are you punishable for any offense, nor capable of any-for there is no such thing as being "offensive" in the eyes of God.

Neale Donald Walsch

#17. I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Aristotle.

#18. From what I have been saying, I trust it is clear that when I can permit realness in myself or sense it or permit it in another, I am very satisfied. When I cannot permit it in myself or fail to permit it in another, I am very distressed.

Carl R. Rogers

#19. The principle was right there - you couldn't miss it. The more we did for our customers, the more they did for us.

Debbi Fields

#20. Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

Caitlin Moran

#21. I encourage students to check out different styles of yoga and different teachers even within one system. Seek the teacher that inspires you, and practice the yoga that makes you feel the best. You'll then find the authentic practice for your life and path.

David F. Swensen

#22. I am constrained to express my adoration of the Supreme Being, the Author of my existence, in full belief of His providential goodness and His forgiving mercy revealed to the world through Jesus Christ, through Whom I hope for never-ending happiness in a future state.

Robert Treat Paine

#23. Pregnancy, childbirth, healing and old age all required gee force. No amount of gengineering by the Biomistresses of the great stations could circumvent that inescapable evolutionary fact.

Jay Lake

#24. When I felt that fame, people were nosing me out, well I moved on. I used traveling names. Wigs, if necessary.

Joni Mitchell

#25. My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.

Brett Hull

#26. The world tomorrow is haunted
only by what doesn't happen
now.

M.T.C. Cronin

#27. He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.

Leo Tolstoy

#28. By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

Rabih Alameddine

#29. I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.

Oliver