Forbid Quotes

212 Forbid quotes by 172 unique authors

We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about our… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union. — Jefferson Davis
We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into… — Robin Hobb
Some people advise you what to do and some people forbid what not to do, but the genuine people just ask you if they can… — Unknown Author
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads… — James Anthony Froude
I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's… — John Galt
And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve… — Anton Chekhov
As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does… — Stephen Leacock
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are the… — Guy Davenport
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our… — Oscar Wilde
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and… — Leonard Bernstein
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some… — Agnes Repplier
The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules… — Iris Murdoch
I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey. — Oscar Nunez
Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested. — Azar Nafisi
My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't. — Francois Pinault
This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr.… — Jon Voight
The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, What about Christ's will and… — Robert A. Cook
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice — Gilbert K. Chesterton
God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age! — Joey McIntyre
I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a… — Darryl Worley
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree… — Thomas Jefferson
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its… — James Anthony Froude

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