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Quotes About Forbid

There are other types of neglect and deprivation. To deny what unfolds inside someone, to forbid the magic that comes unbidden, to impose ignorance in a way that invites danger, to say to a child, 'You must not be what you are.' That is wrong." His voice was gentle but the condemnation was without compassion.
~ Robin Hobb
Even if you cage his flesh and forbid him to utter his thoughts, even to cutting out his tongue, you cannot still a man's soul.
~ Robin Hobb
For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly.
~ Andre Gide
By wordless edict; having none to bid, None to forbid; for this is past all gods Immutable, unspeakable, supreme, A Power which builds, unbuilds and builds again,
~ Edwin Arnold
Bugie, bugie, gli adulti le vietano, intanto ne dicono tante.
~ Elena Ferrante
Mentiras, mentiras, los adultos las prohíben y entretanto cuentan muchas.
~ Elena Ferrante
You can't forbid someone to have an opinion, no matter how young they are!
~ Anne Frank
It can't eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis) She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I had a lover. She sent my lover. But he had had dealings with the Morningstar in the past, and I could not permit that one to claim him again.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Circus with animal shows should be forbidden, there are enough other thrilling options.
~ Bill Kaulitz
All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind, every injustice a false note to avoid in the harmony of the spheres.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
They say that a pauper has a bottomless stomach. That's true as the Bible. You ought to take a look at Genesi's children. May God spare me! But I'm not talking ill of anyone, God forbid. And I can't stand backbiting either.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions.
~ Hassan Nasrallah
Halliday had to keep all of his D&D stuff over at Og's house. Because his own parents thought D&D was satanic and forbid him from playing it.
~ Ernest Cline
It was too much... the gods would not permit such joy.
~ Eva Ibbotson
In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack Obama's inflammatory former pastor Jeremiah Wright or from raising that issue in any other way. He believed it was a sneaky way to use Obama's race against him.
~ John Dickerson
Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo.
~ Michael Pollan
The first time it happened, I laid there marveling at the beauty of it, wondering why God would forbid such bliss when He makes us endure so much misery.
~ Julia Scheeres
Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman.
~ Michael Horton
For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
~ Francis Bacon
if some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. events, not books, should be forbid.
~ Herman Melville
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
~ Karl Lagerfeld