You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.
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.
It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
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.
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.
I lived with a 60-year-old chaperone, and drinking, swearing and smoking were absolutely forbidden - even in the house.
I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.
Circus with animal shows should be forbidden, there are enough other thrilling options.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.
I love the '40s. I love the '50s. I love the style, I love the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the light. I'm just in love with the cars. I'm in love with all of it.
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.
The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
Therefore, it is forbidden to say anything to anyone that might cause animosity between any two people.
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.
Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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.
I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
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.
The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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.
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
Love. How do we define this word? We love our family. We love food. We love the weather. We love our shoes. Love that music. Love someone's work. Love a movie. Love a celebrity. Love that time in life. Love love love!
Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?
When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.
Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him...Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know.
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.
O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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.
When you're someone who's lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.
'Le Petit Soldat' was banned in Paris; it wasn't out in the movie houses. It was forbidden because it was talking about the Algerian war.
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.
I am forbidden sugar, fat, and alcohol. So hooray, I guess, for oatmeal, lemon juice, and chicken soup.
girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.
As an inveterate lover of mystery, cracking the code of a writer's true identity has the same effect, for me, as tasting forbidden fruit.
Sleep is forbidden. When I'm working, I'm a machine and I don't look at other people like they are human.
The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.
We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.
The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence
From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
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