I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think. "
Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.
God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it to be your choice. " And it is a fantastic thing because even at the moment when I am making the choice to reject God, I would depend from moment to moment, you know that beautiful image of God creating by breathing God's breath into this lump of clay, making it a human being.
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.
The United States of America provides the freedom, I should say permits, allows, does not constrain the freedom that we're all born with that allows each of us to pursue whatever it is that we define as a quality of life. Access to quality-of-life services, access to quality-of-life products is unparalleled in the United States of America.
To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding
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.
If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
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 experiment.
An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.
[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.
Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.
Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.
The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
