Transgressing Quotes

#1. All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught mind and saved him from transgressing a worldwide law of whose very existence he was ignorant.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#2. He has forbidden you only carrion, blood, and the flesh of swine; also any flesh that is consecrated other than in the name of God. But for one who is driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, it is no sin. For God is forgiving and merciful.

Anonymous

#3. women had to be controlled and kept from going wild because of their inherent susceptibility to lust; thus men had to exercise aidos, "shame," and sophrosyne, "soundness of mind," to keep women from transgressing the bounds of propriety.

Thomas Van Nortwick

#4. You are only plagued with stress in moments of conflict because you are arrogant, and believe others are transgressing by having unfavorable thoughts about you.

Bryant McGill

#5. In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity Ch.2, 8

John Locke

#6. Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

Alan Sokal

#7. Hurt inflicted, if lesse than the benefit of transgressing, is not punishment... and is rather the Price, or Redemption, than the Punishment of a Crime.

Thomas Hobbes

#8. Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

John Milton

#9. Laws are made to free people, not to bind them - if they are the proper laws. They tell each of us what he may do without transgressing on the equal liberty of any other man.

Louis L'Amour

#10. Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting.

James McAvoy

#11. You're never quite alone when you can stand on a balcony - you have all the cars and houses and the people in the streets. You're among them, but also not. That's the best thing about balconies. The

Fredrik Backman

#12. Even more than dreams our lies reveal our secret wishes.

Marty Rubin

#13. Wintery day,
On my horse
A frozen shadow.

Basho Matsuo

#14. 30He must increase; I must decrease.

Anonymous

#15. It was the way she looked at me the whole time. That look said more than she ever could and, in turn, scared me more than her words alone ever could.

Anna Todd

#16. Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

Martin Cruz Smith

#17. I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are.

Felicity Huffman

#18. It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

John Lennon

#19. Never Look Back.

Behnam Rajabpoor

#20. Beneath her curls, I forget the world,
With a mere gaze she raises my hopes of gold.
Love is as much in her heart as in mine,
But she doesn't say it, her punishment so divine.

Faraaz Kazi

#21. If only he didn't believe he was Shamu's distant cousin. It was such a shame for someone so sublime to be certifiable.

Rosanna Leo

#22. Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.

Frederick Lenz

#23. Trust is as fragile as fairies' wings and almost as hard to find.

Terri Cheney