Quotes About Restriction

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.

In this scene, I'm talking about how much I don't like cookies.... I'm sayin', 'Listen, guys. Have you read the book? We're not supposed to be eating.'

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.

I thought you came down right on the side of go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.

I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.

Our minds have a bottleneck in the so-called "working memory" that allows us to keep only a few simple things in them at any one time.

women are prohibited from ground combat

That was the problem with walls, Carlene thought as she looked out the window. They kept people out, but they also trapped people in.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited

I take out my pen and paper. I'd write how much I love you. I'd write just what you make me do, because you are my breakthrough. But the thing is, I can't say these words. It would just be too absurd.

We are, by our very human nature, limited in what we can know or do or control or change.

I worry that we are even closer to the stripping away of complex thoughts when they do not fit the memory-enfeebling restriction on the number of characters used to convey them.

Good. You are, of course, allowed to love food and music and champagne and rare sunny afternoons in October. You can love the sight of waterfalls and the smell of old books, but the love of people is off limits. Do you hear me? Don't attach yourself to people, and try to feel as little as you possibly can for those you do meet. Because otherwise you will slowly lose your mind . . .

In one life she only ate toast.

You are, of course, allowed to love food and music and champagne and rare sunny afternoons in October. You can love the sight of waterfalls and the smell of old books, but the love of people is off limits. Do you hear me? Don't attach yourself to people, and try to feel as little as you possibly can for those you do meet. Because otherwise you will slowly lose your mind .

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

Birdcage is a shame!

Sick minds like to prohibit; healthy minds like to free!

As Finnikin approached the queen's tent, he saw Aldron standing guard. "I need to see her," he said coldly. "You're not on my list of people who are allowed in," Aldron said. "Then may I ask where this list is?" Aldron tapped his head. "It's up here." "It's good to know that something is.

The rules were explicit: No employee, from the chief executive down to the lowliest mailroom clerk, could talk to the press without a PR minder in tow. The communications department ruthlessly monitored all press coverage, issuing stern correctives to newspapers or magazines that erred on so much as an executive title.