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Quotes About Restriction

I open the curtains in my office and see people out there, some walking and holding hands without having to worry about the consequences. And I can't show my love
~ Paulo Coelho
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
~ Alfred de Vigny
The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.
~ Lois Lowry
There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.
~ Benjamin Franklin
That kind of thing is stopped at the gate, just like plastic gift baskets and irony.
~ Dave Eggers
He couldn't leave the area and couldn't knowingly go within a hundred feet of someone with a criminal record. He couldn't do drugs and he couldn't own or carry a weapon. The
~ David Baldacci
He couldn't leave the area and couldn't knowingly go within a hundred feet of someone with a criminal record. He couldn't do drugs and he couldn't own or carry a weapon. The hydraulic rams came to life and
~ David Baldacci
I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't. I don't understand. Why not? I'm not allowed to leave home. My mother'd punish me something awful if I did... But you're the king. That doesn't change a thing. I still do what mother says. She tells everybody that I'm the best boy ever when it comes to that. Agachak resisted a powerful urge to change this half-wit into a toad or perhaps a jellyfish.
~ David Eddings
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.
~ William Shakespeare
Come on then, I will swear to study so To know the thing I am forbid to know - Berowne
~ William Shakespeare
17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood
~ William Smith
It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan.
~ Winston Graham
I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.
~ Woody Allen
a tie is a noose
~ Yann Martel
Sometimes it seemed to Raisa that life at court was designed to keep a person from thinking too much about anything in particular.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Sevdi?i adamla evlenmeyi Zaza'ya yasaklad?lar. Genç k?z kederinden sarar?p soldu, t?pk? amans?z bir hastal??a yakalanm?? gibi öldü bu dert yüzünden. Menenjit dendi. Yirmi ya??nda a?ktan ölünebilece?ini saklaman?n bir yolu bu muydu yoksa?
~ Unknown
Not everybody can enter an open door. Even the gates of heaven have limited slots during the open season.
~ Unknown
Jean-François Revel (1924–2006) was the man who defined the Communist world as the first society in history condemned to live behind walls in order to stop people getting out.
~ Clive James
My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.
~ Coco Lee
No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it's being watched.
~ Herta Muller
Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
~ Heywood Broun
And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates.
~ Hilari Bell
Movements are restricted. Even a duke must manage with only six men to guard and serve him. Strangers are barred. Delivery men must quit the precincts as soon as they have dropped off their loads, and the royal nursery be scrubbed out twice a day.
~ Hilary Mantel
If you come into a room and say, this is what we're not talking about, it follows that you're talking about nothing else.
~ Hilary Mantel