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Quotes About Restriction

If young players are capable of playing 90 minutes every week at European clubs why prevent them from doing that?
~ Eniola Aluko
I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.
~ Nicole Richie
The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.
~ Laura Prepon
Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
~ Julian Assange
If the U.S. government tries to restrict or clamp down, that just means there will be many more bitcoin businesses in Hong Kong and Singapore, and all those Americans will miss out on all the opportunities.
~ Roger Ver
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
~ Al Capone
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
~ Vladimir Lenin
There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.
~ George Clooney
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.
~ Sergey Brin
Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
~ Janet Jackson
Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.
~ Meg Cabot
I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven?
~ Heather Brewer
A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
~ Langston Hughes
A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!
~ Lucille Kallen
If somebody has a monopoly position, and wants to keep that monopoly position, it means that you are effectively shutting out competition from other sources.
~ Alexander Stille
Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
~ Steven Kotler
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
~ Steven Wright
The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.
~ Steven Wright
I went into a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.
~ Steven Wright
If I am a thorn in your mattress, he will be a cage of briars around you.
~ Storm Constantine
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
~ Stuart Wilde