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Quotes About Prohibited

I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred
~ Thomas Jefferson
Where may one breathe?" demands one Continental Macaroni, in a yellow waistcoat, "— in New-York, Taverns have rooms where Smoke is prohibited." "Tho' clearly," replies the itinerant Stove-Salesman Mr. Whitpot, drawing vigorously at his Pipe, "what's needed is a No-Idiots Area.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited
~ Hjalmar Schacht
There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers.
~ Dave Reichert
Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.
~ Arthur Eddington
He won't be allowed. I told my staff." That cut, he
~ Nora Roberts
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies.
~ Paul Robeson
Ham is undoubtedly one of the most universally beloved of meats, at least in those parts of the world where it's not prohibited.
~ Kate Christensen
You go to Brighton! -- I would not trust you so near it as East-Bourne, for fifty pounds! No, Kitty, I have at last learnt to be cautious, and you will feel the effects of it. No officer is ever to enter my house again, nor even to pass through the village. Balls will be absolutely prohibited, unless you stand up with one of your sisters. And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
~ Jane Austen
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was an attempt to impose order. It set up the Federal Firearms License (FFL) system; gun stores would have to become licensed, and they would have to follow certain rules. Felons, illegal immigrants, and crazy people would be prohibited from buying guns.
~ Jeanne Marie Laskas
in the prohibited Cantos. That poem had talked about empathy being the key to human spiritual evolution. The Church had corrected that, pointing out that obeying God's Will was the source of revelation and salvation.
~ Dan Simmons
Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional. ...[S]hould Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the government, such [acts are] not the law of the land.
~ Chief Justice John Marshall
Straw purchasing is illegal.
~ Jason Chaffetz
Isn't wine prohibited here? the boy asked. It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
~ Paulo Coelho
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.
~ Claudio Magris
Team within the United States, such operations had to be kept secret because the CIA was prohibited by its Charter from carrying out operations in the United States.
~ Unknown
No. I am not sad. I am not allowed to be. I am too useful to be sad.
~ Hilary Mantel
I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times.
~ Cat Stevens
he will then deliver a totally redundant speech about all the things you're not allowed to take inside: scissors, swords, knives, guns, bombs, ballistic missiles, tactical nuclear weapons, etc. Then you
~ Unknown
Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
~ Curt Weldon
You're not supposed to be on the bed," he told the puppy. "It's contractually prohibited.
~ Lisa Kleypas