Quotes About Restriction

A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.

Transformation is forbidden.

As the ones human beings are extreamly apt to get under the influence of alcohol, and, while so, are very quarrelsome and disorderly, we strictly forbad the selling any liquor to them;

As much as I'd like to register Jesus to vote in Georgia, the law says I can't do that.

Generally I'm against regulation.

There is no such thing as free regulation.

You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

I am bound by a contract to not accept other films until 'Mohenjo Daro's release.

Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'

We also have 2 horses, but they're not allowed in the house.

I don't get to go out but an hour a day.

When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

It's impossible not to laugh when codes are jammed up.

Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe.

Our whole lives we were stuck in a town the size of a postage stamp

They think giving us sugar is like sprinkling water on the Gremlins.

The physical laws are but the bars of a cage.

Government regulations had limited fabric lengths, banished pleats, and forbade having more than one pocket. Men now had a slim trim in the pant legs and women looked more military—gray flannel suits, low-heeled shoes in polished fake leather, shoulder-strap bags, berets and felt cloche hats.

I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.

Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.