Restrictive Quotes
42 quotes by 39 authors
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When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he…
— J. Frank Dobie
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There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind
— Noam Chomsky
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It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by…
— John F. Kennedy
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Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us…
— Katherine Dunn
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Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and…
— Judy Chu
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The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if…
— A.J. Ayer
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The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary…
— William Vickrey
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
— Irving Babbitt
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The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with…
— Harry Seidler
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The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of the creative and…
— Midori Snyder
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You have a mayor who hates guns. If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear…
— Muriel Bowser
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If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up…
— Tom Robbins
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An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits
— John F. Kennedy
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Though they play an important role in the early stages, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex, or restrictive. Remember, you are expressing the…
— Bruce Lee
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I think continuity is the devil. I think it's constricting and restrictive, I think it's alienating and off-putting, and it inflicts an artifact of linear…
— Matt Fraction
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Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries.…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.
— Marvin J. Ashton
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We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past,…
— Nelson Mandela
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I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.
— Julia Leigh
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The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very…
— Frederick Lenz
Who Wrote These Restrictive Quotes
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