#forbid

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#god #i #i do #know #myself

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#commit #cultivation #duty #enable #forbid

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya. ↗

— William Hague

#any #clear #forbids #forces #foreign

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#central #disarmament #equality #first #first step

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#bad habits #cannot #correcting #done #forbidding

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#lacks #never #power #prevent #should

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them. ↗

— James Caan

#anybody #because #bodyguards #forbid #get

Mourning is not forbidden, you know. ↗

— Simin Daneshvar

#know #mourning #you

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

#cause #course #doom #everyone #forbid