Jill McCorkle Quotes

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

You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

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

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

People are violent by nature. That’s why we rule the earth; we beat the crap out of everyone else.

basically, the more power politicians have, the hornier they get

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the stake.

We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.

I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.

Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.

When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us.

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.