Quotes of: Forbidding Keyword

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel , where a society of ants declares, 'Everything not forbidden is compulsory.' In other words, if there isn't a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a p...

Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.

Breaking Dawn

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Montaigne: Essays

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Moliere

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Rebecca West

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

Jefferson Davis

God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.

John C. Reilly

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Robert Baden-Powell

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 a presence.

Mark Gatiss

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

Benjamin Tucker

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

Jock Sturges

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 very inviting place to live or work.

Frank Borman

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.

Henri Rousseau

The resurrection of the body forbids us to despise the material realm.

Exodus: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

Potter Stewart

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

Oscar Nunez

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

Ani DiFranco

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

Jennifer Flavin

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

Edward Snowden