Forbidden Quotes - Page 14

• At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  The End Of The Day, Together, Endurance

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, Naughty, Whispering

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jan 26, 2012

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• Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

  John Milton

  Loss, Men, Eden

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 1 (1667)

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• We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always be a part of me in you yes I taunted and tempted you with my forbidden fruit does that make me the serpent too? Believe what you will but if I am exiled alone I know we will be together again someday naked without shame in paradise My thanks to you for being in on my sin

  Megan McCafferty

  Believe, Together Again, Doe

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  I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

  Herman Melville

  Travel, Adventure, Sea

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.12

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• By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mindset of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Infidel: My Life". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2007.

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• We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden

  Catherine Fisher

  Artist, Past, Men

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

  Anne Rice

  Killing Others, Vampire, Penalties

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.306, Ballantine Books

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• Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or die. (Apollymi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dies

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• Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.

  Holly Black

  Mom, Night, Forbidden Love

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Teenage, Book, Reading

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• Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited.

  Pope Pius XII

  Book, Reading, Tasks

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• I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

  Margaret Fuller

  Wisdom, Men, Inquiry

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.72

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• ... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

  James Madison

  Military, Government, President

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• Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Criticism, Path, Peers

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• And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Evil, Victim, Attractive

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• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?'' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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• [I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.

  Moderata Fonte

  Evil, Greed, Mind

  Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.94, University of Chicago Press

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• Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

  Lady Gregory

  School, Years, People

  Lady Gregory (2012). “Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish”, p.2, tredition

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• We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden...it is the way of the gods...we mustn't fall in love...but its already too late.

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Falling In Love, Communication, Moon

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• - I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black! - No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kings, Laughing, Black

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.385, Random House

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• Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Self, Lust

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• I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one person I could always count on to understand. And now that I’ve lost you, I’ve lost everything.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  People, Lost Everything, Turns

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Remember, Mystery

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.101, A&C Black

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• It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Pay The Price, Numbers, Privilege

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