Quotes About Restriction

1924 U.S. (Federal) Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, limits the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. It completely prohibits immigration from Asia.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life. Women, forced to lead restricted lives, retard all human progress. Growth of organism, the individual or social body requires use of all of our powers in four areas: physical, intellectual, spiritual and social

I feel like I'm 16 again — gas is cheap and I'm grounded.

Faens 11. september gir meg lyst til å plaffe ned bin Laden. Men det går ikke, siden det er forbudt å bære våpen om bord i flyet.

Love is too valuable to allow it to be killed by marriage, social pressures, or any other restriction.

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

As soon as thought is restricted, it ceases to be Sufism.

Love's a dog in a manger.

Cualquier cliente puede tener un coche pintado del color que quiera, siempre que sea negro».

Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

You can only suck up to a very finite number of people. A couple of slurps, and you're done.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America.

Crying is the opposite of scolding, because adults are hardly ever allowed to do it.

And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders

Rules made you predictable, less of an individual. Rules made you less free, less authentic, less yourself. And in the end, rules could get you caught.

There was an odd rule throughout the College that no girl might buy a book.

You know what this is? Lula said. This here's plane rage. Plane rage isn't allowed. It got taken off the allowed activities list along with eating. If you make a scene they'll hual you off in leg irons. Stephanie said. I'm tired of being stapped in here, too, Lula said. This seat belt's too tight and it's giving me gas. Anything else? There's no movie.

The downside is my picture's been all over the media and now my movement is limited. So I could use some help." "Why don't you just go blond?" "I've been blond. When I go blond I look like I should be singing with the Village People.

I'm only getting one doughnut," Lula said, getting out of the Firebird. "I'm on a new diet where I only have one of anything. Like I can have one pea. And I can have one piece of asparagus. And I can have one loaf of bread.

She shouldn't be allowed to walk around. She might hurt someone.

The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not needed. Then the idea grew that it was more convenient to leave the basin on his head. Stray thoughts were trimmed along with stray hair; brain-vines, tentacles of thought, were not encouraged to wander. Then, in the interests of human economy, the head of adaptable man became a basin of uniform shape—a basin, a crash helmet. Safe at last; no more thought-cuts.