Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating.… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite. 'That's the advantage of being… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy… — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden — Jo Grimond Copy Share Image
I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Vulnerability of artists is definitely what makes organizations like PEN necessary because, as I tried to argue, the actual work that writers… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm a civilized person who obeys the law and is pretty easy to get along with, but I'm more complicated than that.… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
