Top 1200 Forbidden Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

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

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

The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

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

Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.

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

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

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

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.

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

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

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

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

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

When you're someone who's lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.

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

I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up those unconscious, instinctual urges that you then have to deal with. I'm like a Frankenstein of analysis. I'm able to go back and forth between the world I've created inside of myself and the real world, which is something I think a lot of people who write and paint and make art do.

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

In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa.

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.

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.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity.

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

I lived with a 60-year-old chaperone, and drinking, swearing and smoking were absolutely forbidden - even in the house.

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

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