Forestalled Quotes

#1. I ... am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever
& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

Jane Austen

#2. Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.

Charles Darwin

#3. Sheltering the women and the children played some part; Troy was sure of that. The women and children of Silo One had been gifted with a long sleep while the men stayed and took shifts. It removed the passion from the plans, forestalled the chance that the men might fight among themselves.

Hugh Howey

#4. It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.

Mark Zandi

#5. The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.

James Cook

#6. on the fool's trip to save Paul. And for what? My fucking friend and his wife were dead. Maybe they would have been able to ride the damn thing out in their attic. Couldn't be worse, that's for sure. So we had potentially only forestalled my son's death and theirs.

Mark Tufo

#7. Bring It On, ..nobody in the world could handle me in a fight. Including Chuck Norris.

Bone Crusher

#8. Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.

Mick Taylor

#9. We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

Brene Brown

#10. I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

David Bowie

#11. You could, if you wanted to, spend your entire life in a sitting position. When you weren't lying down.

Edward Abbey

#12. Blomkvist had kept the promise he'd made in December to stop visiting Lundagatan in the vain hope that Salander might appear.

Stieg Larsson

#13. In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Nelson Mandela

#14. Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Robert Benchley