#transgress

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#everyone #everything #first-time #had-known #lie

That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#religion #transgressive-literature #religion

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race. ↗

— Hesiod

#end #justice #over #prevails #race

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#beauty #coercion #even #form #freedom

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#art #becomes #beyond #boundaries #breaking

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#family #heart #i #regret #those

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry. ↗

— Christopher Wren

#beauty #commendable #confusion #geometry #great

You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#bret-easton-ellis #life #transgressive #beauty

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time... ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#drug-craze #transgression #death

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#like #nations #punished #their #transgressions