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Quotes About Forbidden

It was wrong and impossible and illicit and yet each minute with the boy was a gift, a scene from a story he could not leave.
~ Anthony Doerr
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
~ Ma Jian
My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?
~ Jennifer Hudson
You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.
~ Evel Knievel
As long as I am forbidden to see the MSPAP, my children will be forbidden to take the MSPAP.
~ Kathy Szeliga
When I was fighting, there was no boxing in Saudi Arabia because it was forbidden.
~ Naseem Hamed
I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of politics and folklore and history behind it.
~ Giovanni Ribisi
But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.
~ Mordechai Vanunu
I feed foxes. I'm not supposed to, but I love it.
~ Harry Redknapp
When you're someone who's lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.
~ Amanda Gorman
My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.
~ Kathryn Prescott
We all engage in things forbidden and yearn for things denied.
~ Francois Rabelais
He turned away from her, looking out into the night. Why can't I mourn? he wondered. He felt that every fiber of his being craved this release, but it would be denied him forever.
~ Frank Herbert
In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced.
~ Frank McCourt
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
~ Frank Zappa
It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of impatience that they do not return.
~ Franz Kafka
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted. (Wenn es möglich gewesen wäre, den Turm von Babel zu erbauern ohne ihn zu erklettern, es wäre erlaubt worden.)
~ Franz Kafka
If I'm backed into a corner, the first thing that comes to mind is the robot from Forbidden Planet. But that could be me trying to be kitschy, cool, and cultural, because the real answer is R2D2.
~ Christian Slater
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
I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one.
~ Robyn Schneider
There is power in dangerous love. You can be so focused on the forbidden nature of it, justifying your choices to the world—me falling in love with Griffin while still legally married to Nate, Griffin giving me all his attention instead of trying to find a workable custody agreement with Margot, instead of doting on his devastated sons—that you miss the fact you're completely wrong for each other.
~ Luanne Rice
One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.
~ Anais Nin
He kissed her again. And indeed they touched nowhere but their lips. Sensation exploded inside her. Everywhere. Yes, everywhere. It was as if he touched her all over. Her nipples, tingling as if he stroked them. Between her thighs, warm as if he stroked there. She would have blushed- but it felt so good. It felt too good. That it seemed almost forbidden was the last thought in her mind.
~ Samantha James