Forbidden quotes
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All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
-- Alain Robert -
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
-- Alice Miller -
prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
-- Ashoka -
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It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.
-- Augusto Boal -
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ...
-- Carl Sagan -
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
-- Erica Jong -
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Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
-- Harvey Cox -
It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.
-- Hassan Nasrallah -
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For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth...
-- Heinrich Bullinger -
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
-- Horace -
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
-- Isaac Asimov -
girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
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If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.
-- Jerry Ferrara -
The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
-- Jupiter Hammon -
I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
-- Karel Capek -
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
-- Karl Kraus -
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The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.
-- Larry Kramer -
There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss -
I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose.
-- Lora Leigh -
Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.
-- Louise Bogan -
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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.
-- Maria Tatar -
Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.
-- Marie de Gournay -
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
-- Mark Twain -
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We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.
-- Ovid -
men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
-- Quintilian -
We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.
-- Ralph Cudworth -
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Break open the forbidden happiness.
-- Rob Brezsny -
The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
-- Salman Rushdie -
To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
-- Samuel Beckett -
I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one person I could always count on to understand. And now that I’ve lost you, I’ve lost everything.
-- Tabitha Suzuma -
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
-- Tacitus -
American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.
-- Mark Jason Dominus -
You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
