Constrain Quotes

45 quotes by 45 authors

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such… — Elizabeth Edwards
Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective. — Dalai Lama
The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land… — Ai Weiwei
Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism. — Henry Steele Commager
[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right... — Barack Obama
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater… — Stephen Jay Gould
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him. — Joseph Joubert
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. — Jonathan Safran Foer
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed;… — Alan Greenspan
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure… — Henry Paulson
A man has a choice. I chose the impossible. I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the great would… — Andrew Ryan
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and… — Galileo Galilei
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. — George Washington
What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the… — Nicholas A. Christakis
We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to… — Jostein Gaarder
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns;… — John Locke
Walking and overcoming by faith is not easy. For one thing, the dimension of time constantly constrains our perspective. Likewise, the world steadily tempts us.… — Neal A. Maxwell
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental… — Jared Diamond
We donâ€™t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of… — Nicholas G. Carr

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