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Quotes About Forbidden

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose," said Isabel
~ Henry James
Why is gambling forbidden while women in costumes which evoke sensuality are not forbidden? They are a thousand times more dangerous!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.
~ lessing doris
My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.
~ Philip Treacy
Japan's most important archaeological monuments—the 158 gigantic kofun tombs constructed between A.D. 300 and 686, and thought to contain the remains of ancestral emperors and their families—are still the property of the Imperial Household Agency. Excavation of the tombs is forbidden because it would constitute desecration—and it might also shed undesired light on where Japan's imperial family really came from (e.g., perhaps Korea?).
~ Jared Diamond
Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group.
~ Jared Taylor
It's a very long penis Johnny has, and a smooth one, smooth as ivory. She compliments him on it and he says thank you. But they have to hide it. It is too big to hide under the sheets, and it keeps getting bigger as she talks about it and touches it. It's so big that it disappears over the edge of the bed and out the window.
~ Jay McInerney
I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
~ Carl Sagan
Straw purchasing is illegal.
~ Jason Chaffetz
My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics. I came from a very strict background.
~ Wes Craven
Growing up, we were in a strict household, so we weren't allowed to have posters of our crushes and stuff on the wall - mine was Cristina Applegate.
~ Jonathan Scott
I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.
~ Shannon Bream
I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.
~ Kitty Carlisle
We always want what we're not allowed.'20 Ovid, in offering this sage observation, was putting his finger on a mocking truth. Forbidden fruit tasted the sweetest. 'Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.
~ Tom Holland
So although in one language, humankind is forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, in the other it is not only permitted, it is encouraged. That is precisely what that goddamn tree is there for, for humankind to suck from its fruit, and suck and suck and suck and suck, thirty times a day if necessary.
~ Tomson Highway
What the Didache doesn't say is that the community should shun or excommunicate those who commit the forbidden sins. In fact, "correct some, pray for others, and some you should love more than your own life" makes plain that the worst sinners should be showered with the most love.
~ Unknown
I know what that is, 'he said. 'That's drugs, that is.' 'You're a genius, aren't you?' 'Dad will kill you' 'Then I'll be dead.' Then they were both silent, thinking about the room down the hall that no one was allowed to touch, that no one was allowed to enter, and the brother who you were not alloewd to mention in this house. The brother you could't even fucking mention
~ Tony Parsons
Power deities, for all their strength, are very much like humans, They are subjects to periods of despair and are not free from the crippling consequences of emotions, For over two decades Tibetans were forbidden from holding any religious ceremonies or prayers. No prayer flags, incense or ceremonies were offered to the deities and demi-gods of the region. This neglect broke their hearts and they became bedraggled and weak.
~ Unknown
That sounds super dangerous! Touch me not — or you will DIE!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I think there's a lot of things we're both doing right now that we're not supposed to," she'd pointed out, sweeping her wing around the alcove where they were hiding. "Like falling in love?" he'd asked, taking her talons in his. "Now that," she'd whispered back, "is something you're definitely, absolutely not supposed to say.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Wait," Moon said, catching up to him. "What are you saying? That Foeslayer … and Prince Arctic … they had eggs together? A NightWing and an IceWing?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The rules: Nobody mentions the abyss. Nobody goes near the abyss. Everyone pretends the abyss does not exist anymore. Everyone acts like they hear absolutely zero whispers and feel zero weirdness coming from the creepy big dark hole.)
~ Tui T. Sutherland