#restriction

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal. ↗

— James Welch

#i #i think #insulting #labels #people

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#embrace #faculty #human #incompatible #just

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#american public #any #banning #guns #kinds

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#bitter #bitter truth #china #companies #enlisted

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries. ↗

— Jon Lord

#boundaries #getting #greater #me #often

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#fought #had #i #immigration #restriction

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#color #craziness #different #different color #east

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#course #diet #eat #i #i tried

I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you want.' Such permission can be terrifying. I know it is for me. Often it's better if you impose rules or restrictions on a project. Requirements can force you to be creative in unusual ways. ↗

— Lisa Mangum

#artists #restrictions #art

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conscious #control #controlled #effort #envy