Quotes About Restriction

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.

The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

First you will do, then you will understand. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent. It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive. The transfer of words into action, the freedom of it...

It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive.

I think the curfew's about public order. The government don't have the balls or the manpower to order people to stay in their houses indefinitely.

It is not in the power of governments to increase the supply of one commodity without a corresponding restriction in the supply of other commodities more urgently demanded by consumers. The authority may reduce the price of one commodity only by raising the prices of others.

Perhaps the grumbler will object on the ground that he considers p a vital commodity, much more important than q, and that therefore the production of p should be expanded and that of q restricted. If this is really the meaning of his criticism, he is at variance with the valuations of the consumers. He throws off his mask and shows his dictatorial aspirations. Production should not be directed by the wishes of the public but by his own despotic discretion.

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Originally planning to go with a small house concept, we found it was illegal to build a house of less than nine hundred square feet. Why? By what authority can anybody tell me what kind of house I have to live in?

I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn't allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a boy of my age needed was ideas.

Sorry you're too old to stay out past 10:00 p.m. on your birthday.

Death is the principal limitator of opportunities, progress & life.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.