Quotes About Restriction

Growing up, I played every sport I could play, so I didn't have much time, but when I wasn't playing sports, I was definitely playing video games. But my mom used to tell me that I could only play video games for two hours a day and then they would turn off the Internet so I couldn't play online.

In the States, time with friends can feel a bit like those PETA videos of chickens on factory farms: slotted and squeezed into tight compartments.

Most of my videos are 60 seconds long. They can only fit about 200 words. There are a lot of things that I wanted to discuss about a given topic - my feelings behind it, how I ended up making a video, what happened before and after - that I couldn't because I had this 60-second limit.

You're not supposed to be on the bed," he told the puppy. "It's contractually prohibited.

There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)

My days of love are over; me no more The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow, Can make the fool of which they made before,— In short, I must not lead the life I did do; The credulous hope of mutual minds is o'er, The copious use of claret is forbid too, So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

She was going to be mine, but then my landlord said no dogs." "You live in your own house." "I'm awfully strict.

Shoelaces are the first way society ties up the individual.

Its like he gave me wings and said, Its illegal to fly.

I want to raise a toast and make you a Birthday wish. But since you've just turned 18, I'm sorry I can't legally do that! Happy 18th Birthday!

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

There are two kinds of dieters: those who are always telling you what to eat and those who are always telling you what not to eat.

Women are not supposed to take up much room, or to go very far from home, or to stay away for long. They are not supposed to be by themselves. They are supposed to hear and obey, to come back when they are called.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Under capitalism democratism is restricted, cramped, curtailed, mutilated by all the conditions of wage slavery and of the poverty and misery of the masses

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.

Theory and practice may not coincide. A Sikh girl may find her life restricted more than her brother's even though Sikh teaching is one of gender equality.

I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.

My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.

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

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.