#forbid

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In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.


William Glasser


#ask #being #book #books #closed

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.


John McCarthy


#beautiful word #between #compulsory #contemporary #difference

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.


Jon Meacham


#authority #authorized #certain #certain kinds #could

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.


George H. Mead


#before #blocked #cautious #delicacy #entrance

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


Moliere


#forbids #found #heaven #pleasures #some

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.


Boris Pasternak


#doctor #fellow #forbidden #me #metaphysics

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.


Francois Rabelais


#denied #desire #forbidden #long #things

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.


Gerrit Smith


#forbidden #god #him #his #marriage

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.


Stefan Zweig


#art #away #elemental #ephemeral #forbidden

Tasting what could have been—what should have been—didn't make it easier.


Kele Moon


#erotic-romance #forbidden-fruit #love #love