Quotes About Restriction

Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of subject matter.

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Street deserted because the people were forced to do so.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

La vita è una cella un po' fuori dell'ordinario, più uno è povero più si restringono i metri quadrati a sua disposizione.

The problem for these individuals was that, while they did lose a significant amount of weight through dietary restriction, this very restriction seemed to prevent them from gaining any power through sprint interval training. More specifically, Lunn suggested, inadequate protein intake kept their muscles from adapting to the stress imposed by the sprints.

My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.

A highly paid, highly motivated employee who is not allowed to work with his full potential is like a Ferrari which is not allowed out of the garage.

To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.

I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.

When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Not an unbeliever, sir, a free-thinker. Perhaps you've never thought about the difference. As a free-thinker I can believe what I like, when I like. I can commit you, in your sad situation, to the protection of God this evening, even though tomorrow morning I shan't believe he exists. As an unbeliever I should be obliged not to believe, and that's an unwarrantable restriction on my thoughts.

In 1076 he decreed that none of the English clergy would be allowed to marry.

From the look of things, in five minutes every building facing the square would be locked up tighter than a Romulan clam.

Our apartment didn't have any good doors to slam. If you wanted to slam a door, you would either end up in the hallway or trapped in the bathroom. Those were the only options.

Neither were we allowed to choose what we ate. I have a friend whose seven-year-old will only consider something if it's white. Had I tried that, my parents would have said, You're on, and served me a bowl of paste, followed by joint compound, and, maybe if I was good, some semen.

I learned that people below the age of sixteen cannot deliver milk in the U.K., but I don't think I learned why. It was just one of those weird English injustices, like summer.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Nothing could be more restrictive than working with people in advertising.