Quotes About Restriction

You can only do what you can no matter how you try.

More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in

I dislike being held to a set of rules for no reason other than to create the impression of order, whether it exists or not.

National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.

I bet you never thought the hardest part of finding your 'savior? would be getting her mom to let her stay out past curfew.

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

You won't let me buy any clothes. Now you won't let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I'm going to go crazy!

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities.

Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the men's room at the Astor!

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.