Restrictions Quotes

“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot step entirely, and from which we benefit. For wilderness is our first home too, and in our wild ride into modernity with all its concerns and problems we need also all the good attachments to that origin that we can keep or restore. Dog is one of the messengers of that rich and still magical first world. The dog would remind us of the pleasures of the body with its graceful physicality, and the acuity and rapture of the senses, and the beauty of forest and ocean and rain and our own breath. There is not a dog that romps and runs but we learn from him.

The other dog—the one that all its life walks leashed and obedient down the sidewalk—is what a chair is to a tree. It is a possession only, the ornament of a human life. Such dogs can remind us of nothing large or noble or mysterious or lost. They cannot make us sweeter or more kind.

Only unleashed dogs can do that. They are a kind of poetry themselves when they are devoted not only to us but to the wet night, to the moon and the rabbit-smell in the grass and their own bodies leaping forward.”
― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems

“In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating.”
― Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

“The AIDS pandemic forced humans to cover their genitals with condoms. The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing them to put on masks. It is as if many people weren’t already going through life putting on a million masks and changing them based on convenience and self-interest. It is as if countless humans on this planet weren’t already forced to keep their mouths shut and endure the misfortunes imposed on them by the ‘fortunate’ few. I wonder which body part we will be forced to cover next. I wonder if, in the first place, all of this is happening because our eyes were covered all along. Are we heading to a time when staying safe becomes akin to a death sentence with stay of execution?”
― Louis Yako

“That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.”
― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

“I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and he was struck again by the religious reverence of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.

'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it.' And he understood for the first time the earnestness with which May, who was incapable of tying a ribbon in her hair to charm him, had gone through the solemn rite of selecting and ordering her extensive wardrobe.”
― Edith Wharton

“Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our wings were clipped, our restrictions were made, our boundaries were tested but now we are free, aren’t we?
We look above in the sky at the birds and hope to be free. But the birds make their nests in the trees high above, to protect themselves from predators. Free birds must keep looking over their shoulders the same way all of us have to”
― Jennifer Gilmour, Clipped Wings: Hear some stories of survival

“The teens whom [danah boyd, director of the research institute Data & Society] interviewed insisted they prefer hanging out in person to messaging on smartphones, but adults have restricted their mobility so thoroughly that they have few alternatives. The Internet has become young people's core social infrastructure because we've unfairly deprived them of access to other sites for meaningful connection. If we fail to build physical places where people can enjoy one another's company, regardless of age, class, race, or ethnicity, we will all be similarly confined.”
― Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

“What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we place on our lives.”
― Andrew Kendall, The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.

“Can we BAN rapes & killings Like ECIGARETTES”
― Talees Rizvi, 21 Day Target and Achievement Planner

“The ritual of rules and restrictions is just being yourself, forsooth in the zestful way possible”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“It is the restrictions that decides what can be tolerated and it is the tolerance that decides what can be strict”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“The philosophy of the province is a philosophy of a closed circle that does not allow an apostasy, without which there is no creativity. The philosophy of the province is a normative and normalizing, suprapersonal and impersonal philosophy, it shuts out all aspects of life, education, sport, nutrition, nature, love, work, language, religion and death (which is far from being the death of an individual) replacing life with rigid forms of the normative which apply to all.”
― Daša Drndić, Belladonna

“the given language is power because it compels me to use already formulated stereotypes, including words themselves, and that it is structured so fatally that, slaves inside it, we cannot free ourselves outside it, because outside the given language there is nothing.

How can we escape what Barthes calls, Sartre-like, this huis clos? By cheating. You can cheat the given language. This dishonest and healthy and liberating trick is called literature.”
― Umberto Eco, Travels In Hyperreality

“The reserves of emotion pent up during those many months when for everybody the flame of life burned low were being recklessly squandered to celebrate this, the red-letter day of their survival. Tomorrow real life would begin again, with its restrictions. But for the moment people in very different walks of life were rubbing shoulders, fraternizing. The leveling-out that death’s imminence had failed in practice to accomplish was realized at last, for a few gay hours, in the rapture of escape.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“You couldn't do this and you couldn't do that, but life went on.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“English: "Means are limit of consequences."

Česky: „Prostředky jsou limitem následků.”
― Sebastián Wortys, Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie

“I let everyone know that I don’t follow any restrictions, and suffer everyone’s contempt in silence.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gora

“I made my name”. What does this mean? It means you fought and won your inner battle against fears and restrictions”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If a person is not free, his right is restricted.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Knowledge cannot and should not be restricted to a few only.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“Tarkime, yra daugybė žmonių, kurie dėl pačių objektyviausių priežasčių neturi paso. Jie dėl to nekalti, bet mes vis tiek neleidžiame jiems keliauti, laisvai kirsti valstybių sienų - tokia sienų politika, ir tiek.”
― Dainius Vanagas, Oderis

“There are things

women know how to do. Clipped and caged and I think
that’s beautiful. What could be more feminine

than dying a slow death and another creature calling it
beautiful.”
― Rachelle Toarmino

“It’s not natural for members of a society to adopt a calm, rational stance towards a group of people who violate social restrictions to act in a contrary fashion in all matters. Society is bound to misunderstand them, ascribing perverse motives to their straightforward actions, viewing as evil whatever they regard as good. So it should be. It is one of the penalties to be paid for deliberately breaking social laws.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gora

“It seems to me that this honour that has been bestowed upon you comes with very few benefits. You're not allowed to show your face or travel anywhere outside the castle grounds. You didn't even seem all that surprised when the Priestess moved to strike you. That leads me to believe it's something fairly common,' he said, his brows dark slashes above his eyes. 'You are not allowed to speak to most, and you are not to be spoken to. You're caged in your room most of the day, your freedom restricted. All the rights others have are privileges for you, rewards that seems impossible for you to earn.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Ce qu'on veut m'empêcher d'être ou de faire me rend furieuse, pas ce qu'ils sont ou font.”
― Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

“Breaking the natural and divine restrictions means one moves certainly to put its life in the way of terrible risks.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“I had no control over where I went, who I spoke to or could speak with. I was veiled, unable to even look someone in the eye if they were allowed to speak with me. I didn't get to choose what I ate, when I left my chambers, or who was allowed to even touch me. But he was the first thing I'd ever truly chosen for myself.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Sometimes the unknown seems like the worst place to consider choosing. However, if you know there is something more to what you desire beyond what’s known to you now, why not venture into the unknown? There are no boundaries or restrictions until you create them.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte