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Quotes About Restriction

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.
~ Elton John
I was so driven in high school but did sometimes wish I could go out with friends, go to parties, and be a normal teenager. But having mum as my coach at home meant I couldn't sneak around.
~ Jessica Fox
I'm not fighting for the right to do whatever we want without any restriction. We need to be careful of the fact that we also make games for kids and teenagers.
~ David Cage
When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.
~ Natalia Kills
Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.
~ Kevin Mitnick
I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view.
~ Franka Potente
Pretty much every comic that you see live is going to be slighter ruder, slightly darker and slightly more scary. But there are restrictions when you're on the telly. I'm not trying to rude it up for live. I just have to restrict myself on the telly.
~ Sarah Millican
Que dit Keanu Reeves dans Portrait craché d'une famille modèle, déjà ? « Il vous faut un permis pour acheter un chien, il vous en faut un pour conduire une voiture. Nom de Dieu, même pour attraper un poisson, il vous faut un permis ! »
~ Robert Dugoni
the Romans knew of the watermill but made nearly no use of it, continuing to rely on muscle power to grind their flour.20 The Ottoman Empire prohibited the mechanical clock, and so did the Chinese.
~ Rodney Stark
Hamilton, back by August 13, dove into a debate that passionately engaged him: immigration. He opposed any attempt to restrict membership in Congress to native-born Americans or to stipulate a residency period before immigrants could qualify for it.
~ Ron Chernow
Harper was strictly forbidden from enlarging existing departments or adding new ones.
~ Ron Chernow
Sveinbjörn offered me another kittiwake egg. I shook my head and told him I was on a diet that expressly forbade me to eat more than one raw bird a day.
~ Lawrence Millman
different sort. The gravity squeezed out the freedom. It felt like one strike and you're out. One attempt at a theory. Neagley said, "Every avenue comes back to the exact same
~ Lee Child
The cell was very dark. I could just about see a bunk bed, a sink and a john.
~ Lee Child
Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.
~ Leon R. Kass
Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?" "Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
~ Libba Bray
What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?
~ Libba Bray
We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.
~ Libba Bray
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.
~ Libba Bray
There I had been for three-quarters of a year caught in that mousetrap of a France, unable to get permission to leave the country. Now, for a second time, I was to taste the pleasures of an internment camp.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.
~ Karl Pilkington
Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.
~ Slavoj Zizek
Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.
~ Lee Myung-bak
The limited circle is pure.
~ Franz Kafka