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Quotes About Restriction

When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
~ Carmen Busquets
A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.
~ Jill Scott
Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
~ Karan Singh Grover
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
~ Dora Russell
you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.
~ Anne Sexton
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
~ Granville Hicks
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Paris to Jack and most others, then, was a network of deep trenches with vertical walls, and a few drafty battlements atop those walls—otherwise, the world's largest collection of closed and locked doors.
~ Neal Stephenson
It was a limited engagement. When they stop coming, I limit the engagement.
~ Neil Simon
Protection Certificate) to open a lemonade stand in New York City?
~ Niall Ferguson
From 1500, anyone in China found building a ship with more than two masts was liable to the death penalty; in 1551 it became a crime even to go to sea in such a ship.21 The records of Zheng He's journeys were destroyed. Zheng He himself died and was almost certainly buried at sea. What
~ Niall Ferguson
All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
~ Alain Robert
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
~ Denzel Washington
For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.
~ Estelle
I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children.
~ Prince Philip
I began to feel whatever narrow space I had in Saudi Arabia was getting narrower. I thought it would be better to get out and be safe.
~ Jamal Khashoggi
I can definitely never run for president, that much is clear. I
~ Christie Hodgen
One may be forcibly restrained from wicked actions, or barred from committing them, but to forbid people from contemplating them is too much.... If god really wanted people to be free of such thoughts, he should have taken more care to invent a different species.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Devil's Food? You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.
~ Christopher Moore
Restricting knowledge slows the pace of development.
~ Trudi Canavan
That life was full of rules. Too many rules; it was a prepacked kind of life.
~ V.S. Naipaul
Tight-lacers were frequently compared to suicides and infaticides, torturers and murderers. They were bad wome, who solicited the lecherous gaze of vulgar men. Specifically, they were bad mothers - at a time in the late nineteenth century when motherhood was seen as women's sacred duty.
~ Valerie Steele
The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle!
~ Verne Harnish
Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a la playa.
~ Victor Hugo