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Quotes About Barred

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
~ Philip Gibbs
They say that this lot is bitterest: to recognize the good but by necessity to be barred from it.
~ Pindar
Nobody moved for a time. We have lost the first of the ebb, said the Director, suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
~ Joseph Conrad
NO ADMITTANCE. NOT EVEN TO AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL. YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE. GO AWAY.
~ Douglas Adams
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
~ Ma Jian
this surely is the worst deprivation of all: to be barred from the essence of beauty and holiness when just those qualities are right in front of you is the cruelest of all suffering
~ Robert A. Johnson
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Trump knows he's facing some pretty strong criminal liability when he leaves office, one way or another. Even if a sitting president can't be indicted, he's got to know his future looks like it's behind bars unless he cuts some sort of deal with the prosecutors.
~ Neal Katyal
being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much
~ Alexandre Dumas
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
~ Philip Gibbs
and the barred owl calls from the well of my mind, more echo than thought, as it fades through the wind and flickers away to the silence beyond like that voice, in myself, of another.
~ John Burnside
How many actors could make fifty dollars a week were all forms of amusement barred by edict? Harpo Marx? He could strum his lyre on a ferry boat and pass the hat.
~ bankhead tallulah iii
In my world, reserved Italians, heterosexual hairdressers, clouds without silver linings, ignoble savages, hard-hearted whores, advantageous ill-winds, sober Irishmen, and so on, are not permitted to exist.
~ Martin Amis
Legislation that is evaded, substantially nullified and unenforced is a mockery of law. Significant progress has effectively been barred by the cunning obstruction of segregationists
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.
~ Joan Rivers
when I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness; that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me, he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was for ever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance. I recollected my threat, and resolved that it should be accomplished. I knew
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky....
~ Joseph Conrad
We were barred last year as well," Sylvie informed Eddy. "But it's okay. We do our celebrating on August first anyway, just like the rest of the country's Colored communities.
~ Beverly Jenkins
Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can't go.
~ Shelly Laurenston
yahaan m***** mana hai !
~ Sheroz things
Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.
~ George Vecsey
It's not good for you to be barred from traveling to certain places in your head because some skeleton is in the closet.
~ Roland Orzabal
The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
~ Orson Scott Card
We haven't got those dreams: 'I wish to become doctor or a lawyer.' Black people in South Africa have been barred in doing anything that would articulate their cause.
~ John Kani