Top 1200 Forbidden Fruit Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

Sleep is forbidden. When I'm working, I'm a machine and I don't look at other people like they are human.

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.

Marcus: Cherry? Jillian: My ten-year-old niece. Marcus: She's named after a piece of fruit? Jillian nodded. Jillian: So is her twin sister, Apple. Marcus: You're kidding me. Jillian: Unfortunately, I'm serious. Their father is fond of fruit pies and thought it would be cute. Marcus: And their mother didn't protest? Jillian: She thinks Steven's cute, so she gives him whatever he wants.

Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing, not the fruit. You can never really know how it's gonna turn out in the world but you know if you enjoy doing it. And ideas start flowing and you start getting, you know, excited about stuff. Then you're having a great time in the doing and that's what it's all about. If you don't enjoy the doing, then do something else.

I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

Circus with animal shows should be forbidden, there are enough other thrilling options.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.

I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could have mighty odd ideas about what constituted a healthy diet. One time I'd opened the pantry and found nothing but boxes and boxes and boxes of Fruit Loops. I had a near-miss with diabetes, and Thomas, who was never quite sure where the food had come from, declared that I had clearly been driven Fruit Loopy.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.

When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.

We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Many people take daylight for granted, but if you are forbidden to see it, you will appreciate it.

girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.

If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other words, by looking at the order in the world, we can infer purpose and from purpose we begin to get some knowledge of the Creator, the Planner of all this. This is, then, how I look at God. I look at God through the works of God's hands and from those works imply intentions. From these intentions, I receive an impression of the Almighty.

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.

Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

Therefore, it is forbidden to say anything to anyone that might cause animosity between any two people.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.

I am forbidden sugar, fat, and alcohol. So hooray, I guess, for oatmeal, lemon juice, and chicken soup.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967.

It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.