Forbidding Quotes

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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. — Robert Baden-Powell
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while… — Abraham Cahan
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place. — Roger Bannister
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by… — William James
America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a… — James Madison
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing… — Muhammad
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly. — Luther Standing Bear
The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. — John Lescroart
It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a… — Frank Borman
The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment. — Billy Graham
The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding. — Raul Hilberg
There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to… — Seneca the Younger
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can… — Nelson Mandela
What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call… — Frantz Fanon
The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of… — Alexander Hamilton
Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint… — Jane Austen
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was… — Mark Gatiss
Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory."… — Michio Kaku
prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden. — Ambrose Bierce

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