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Quotes About Restriction

Your mom said to say I could have just one peanut butter square but not til after they cool down.
~ Breehn Burns
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!
~ Henry James
The common contaminated foods which would be the major source of Sr-90 might be classified into five grades- A, B, C, D, and E... The A food would be restricted to children and to pregnant women. The B food would be a high-priced food available to everybody. The C food would be a low priced food also available to everybody. Finally, the D food would be restricted to people over age forty or fifty... Most of these people would die of other causes before they got cancer.
~ Herman Kahn
'Dirty Dancing' is one of my favorite movies, and I was in love with Patrick Swayze for years, but I tried to stay out of his way and never to meet him because I knew if I did, he'd want to talk about yogurt or some weird dietary restriction or something.
~ Eve Babitz
I like to describe my characters as though they were all trapped in a glass box.
~ Leila Slimani
But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
~ Ed Rendell
Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.
~ Jeff Flake
It's not good for you to be barred from traveling to certain places in your head because some skeleton is in the closet.
~ Roland Orzabal
The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
~ Johnny Vegas
You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is mistreatment. In a holding cell, you get very bored. You have no newspapers, you have no anything.
~ Bernhard Goetz
I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
~ Katee Sackhoff
The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.
~ Mary Antin
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.
~ Oswald Spengler
Yo, why can't I speak out and then have fun? Why can't I just be a human? Why can't I just do what I want? People just want to keep you in one type of box or lane.
~ Joey Badass
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
~ Alice Walker
There are no children's books in prison.
~ Stephen Reid
Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far
~ Steve Aylett
There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.
~ Jessica Brown Findlay
There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.
~ Asghar Farhadi
The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
~ Barbara Demick
I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
~ Siobhan Fahey
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
There are enough no smoking places now.
~ David Hockney