Forestall Quotes

#1. If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.

Therese De Lisieux

#2. I've always though of writing as the opposite of suicide," she said. "That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it."
"Like Scheherazade?"
"Yes," she said. "Spinning tales to forestall her execution ...

Ruth Ozeki

#3. Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned.

Sun Tzu

#4. Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent. Scheherazade's story is a desperate inversion of murder; it is the effort, throughout all those nights, to exclude death from the circle of existence.

Michel Foucault

#5. Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man ...

Edmund White

#6. Can the theater teach us to wait? To forestall our satisfaction? Poems teach us how to wait. The natural world makes us wait. Erik Satie teaches us how to wait. And so does much music. Will YouTube teach us how to wait? Will YouTube teach us how to die?

Sarah Ruhl

#7. Trials are sent to some so as to take away past sins, to others so as to eradicate sins now being committed, and to yet others so as to forestall sins which may be committed in the future. These are distinct from the trials that arise in order to test men in the way that Job was tested.

Maximus The Confessor

#8. I notice where Death has been introduced, he frequently calls, making it desirable to forestall his advances.

Emily Dickinson

#9. Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

#10. We still, alas, cannot forestall it-
This dreadful ailment's heavy toll;
The spleen is what the English call it,
We call it simply, Russian soul.

Alexander Pushkin

#11. A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

Rudolf Flesch

#12. Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

#13. One key to happiness, then, is to forestall the adaptation process: We need to take steps to prevent ourselves from taking for granted, once we get them, the things we worked so hard to get.

William B. Irvine

#14. Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act

Jonathan Dimbleby

#15. You will not forestall my judgement!

Davy Jones

#16. The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

George Will

#17. We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence.

Eleanor Catton

#18. What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

John Milton

#19. Many writers have reported being able to forestall the petty annoyances of life by maintaining the shared illusion that they are working at something productive...a facility they share with prostitutes and attorneys.

Kenneth B. Lifshitz

#20. To dust is only to forestall burial

Annie Dillard

#21. It is our mission to forestall our duties

Alexandre Dumas

#22. It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.

Harold L. Ickes

#23. Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

Dizzy Gillespie

#24. A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying Why?

Dallas Willard

#25. The stakeout. The least glamorous and yet often the most valuable activity in investigations. To endure the agonizing boredom and forestall restlessness, I slowed my metabolism into near rigor mortis until I was nothing more than a pair of eyeballs fixed

Mario Acevedo

#26. The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

Seth Godin

#27. I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

Joseph Farah

#28. Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

Karl A. Menninger

#29. What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them!

Ken Puddicombe

#30. The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.

Mark Batterson

#31. Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#32. That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Mark Twain

#33. Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

Mark Helprin