Quotes About Restriction

When you rigidly limit the amount of food you are allowed to eat, it usually sets you up to crave larger quantities of that very food.

The moment you banish a food, it paradoxically builds up a "craving life" of its own that gets stronger with each diet, and builds more momentum as the deprivation deepens.

Restrict high capacity magazines and clips and we say "over my dead body." Restrict the Body of Christ and we say little to nothing.

The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

Mientras más se prohíbe, menos se cumple.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Charmed with his discourse, delighted to learn that it is so easy to promote, by legislating, the prosperity of a people, the law-makers voted the restriction. "Talk of labor and economy," they said, "what is the use of these painful means of increasing the national wealth, when all that is wanted for this object is a decree?

L'injonction capitaliste (tout ce qui est agréable est obligatoire) est aussi stupide que la culpabilité chrétienne (tout ce qui est agréable est interdit).

El mandato capitalista (todo lo que es placentero es obligatorio) es igual de estúpido que la culpabilidad cristiana (todo lo que es placentero está prohibido).

With the growth of proletarian discontent many towns are taking care to restrict the privilege of arms to the wealthy. In Troyes only those citizens possessing vingt livres vaillant ("twenty pounds' worth of property") are authorized to own a crossbow and fifty bolts.

There was a hunger in her, and girls were not supposed to be hungry. They were supposed to nibble sparingly when at table, and their minds were supposed to be satisfied with a slim diet too.

She's got us, she's got us all. Caverna. She doesn't want to let us go. Do you know what she's like? A huge trap-lantern with us inside her, digesting us really, really slowly, and not wanting to let any of us go. Maybe that's the worst kind of prison – not knowing you're in a prison. Because then you don't fight to get out.

There was a hunger in her, and girls were not supposed to be hungry. They were supposed to nibble sparingly when at table, and their minds were supposed to be satisfied with a slim diet too. A few stale lessons from tired governesses, dull walks, unthinking pastimes. But it was not enough. All knowledge – any knowledge – called to Faith, and there was a delicious, poisonous pleasure in stealing it unseen.

If this book were limited to 140 pages, it would end here.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not — the government won't let me try it.

People really wanted to hear me say that what they were considering [with regard to activities during the COVID-19 pandemic] was okay, no matter what that was. It just doesn't work that way. The most important message was limit your contact to just a very few people.

Of course, we Chinese are not allowed to own land, but Thai landowners are always in need of money.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

You can't keep counting forever

To me, there's so much talent in the world that's locked out for the wrong reasons, whether it's innovators at the highest end where we need to change the regulation systems, or whether it's the talented people who work here who the bureaucracy's holding back, or the amazing American people.

And so border security is not simply preventing people from getting in, but very often preventing somebody from leaving for the wrong reasons.

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.

When you are in WWE, you're really strapped down by their rules and writing.