Constrain Quote by Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Download Open image “An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.” — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constrain Obligation Responsibility
Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Obligation is what's leading us to toward successful, and what keeps us moving towards the future. — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“The only obligation I recognize in this world is my duty to my immediate family” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide… — Eamon Duffy Copy Share Image
If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
