#forbid

I don’t know how to dance!” she said. His arms tightened around her when she tried to pull away. “Then just let me hold you. ↗

— Airicka Phoenix

#young-adult-paranormal #young-adult-romance #love

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. ↗

— Josh Billings

#bad #enough #fall #ferment #forbid

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. ↗

— David Bowie

#access #age #certain #certain age #coverage

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#big #big fan #big problem #certain #civilization

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day. ↗

— Jerry Ferrara

#craving #day #even #feel #forbidden

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#forbid #something #thing #us

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#attacks #define #definition #easy #forbids

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#concept #forbid #god #lost #love

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. ↗

— Mark Twain

#forbidden #more #popular #things