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Quotes About Restriction

After the first week, Pete convinced Nix to appoint him a jail trusty, which meant his cell was not locked during the day and he could roam as he pleased as long as he did not leave the building
~ John Grisham
being nothing more than a prison. As Todd slowed the car, he said, "It looks like one of those
~ John Grisham
because the regent's power was limited by the terms of the treaty of Haddington.
~ John Guy
She was not allowed to write to him
~ John Guy
Definition merely adds the locks to a world that is assumed to be closed.
~ Unknown
One can scarcely conceive the full horror of it unless one is a parent who takes a close look at his children and then asks himself how he would feel if a group of men should come to his door and tell him they had decided - for reasons of convenience to them - that his children's lives would henceforth be restricted, their world smaller, their educational opportunities less, their future mutilated
~ John Howard Griffin
Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
~ John Irving
He had just one vowel and one consonant left.
~ John Irving
In Switzerland, it is illegal to keep just one guinea pig.
~ John Lloyd
Monument and Ignacio, Colorado, went further than banning all public gatherings. They banned customers from stores; the stores remained open, but customers shouted orders through doors, then waited outside for packages.
~ John M. Barry
an epidemic so extreme that New York City had required people to obtain passes to travel.
~ John M. Barry
Clifford Adams recalled, "They stopped people from communicating, from going to churches, closed the schools, . . . closed all the saloons. . . . Everything was quiet.
~ John M. Barry
Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot live in a coed dorm have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!
~ Jay Leno
If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
~ Pete Seeger
At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.
~ Dick Armey
The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.
~ Stanislav Grof
We don't talk anymore and I can't understand why. It's like you gave me wings and then told me it's illegal to fly.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
After I was born, he tried to keep me inside as much as he could.
~ Madeline Miller
Una jaula de oro no deja de ser jaula.
~ Madeline Miller
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
~ Mae West
You're all at least a year behind and …' 'And whose fault is that?' Callum said with erupting bitterness. 'Until a few years ago we were only allowed to be educated up to the age of fourteen – and in noughts-only schools at that, which don't have a quarter of the money or resources that your schools have.
~ Malorie Blackman
Interdit de boire, interdit de fumer, interdit de manger trop gras ou trop sucré, à force de vouloir nous faire vivre plus longtemps, c'est le goût de vivre qu'ils vont nous enlever [...].
~ Marc Levy
My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets whom the tyranny of rhyme forces into the discovery of their finest lines.
~ Marcel Proust