Intervened Quotes

#1. Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

Jim Gerlach

#2. There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.

Clark Ashton Smith

#3. I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.

Bill Bailey

#4. Fight well," he said distantly, "and remember you are Englishmen!"
"Welshmen," someone intervened. Sir Roger visibly flinched at that and then, without another word, led his three men-at-arms from the church.

Bernard Cornwell

#5. I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.

Steven Furtick

#6. Yes, the world is broken. But don't be offended by it. Instead, thank God that He's intervened in it, and He's going to restore it to everything it was meant to be. His kingdom is breaking through, bit by bit. Recognize it, and wonder at it.

Brant Hansen

#7. The will of God, the creator and ruler of the universe, embraces all possible wills, His own as well as that of every man born into this world. If this is so, intervened Jesus with sudden insight, then each man is a part of God.

Jose Saramago

#8. Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution.

W. Cleon Skousen

#9. Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#10. In the 1960s, the public demanded seat belts in cars, but automakers balked. Not until government intervened did seat belts become standard equipment. Now, no one would consider buying a vehicle without this basic safety feature.

Eric Schneiderman

#11. In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.

Evo Morales

#12. They knew what they were doing. They had counted the cost. They had measured the risk. They were well aware what the outcome of their actions would be unless God miraculously intervened, as in fact he did.

J.I. Packer

#13. However, there is no retirement in the spiritual life, and God intervened to upset what appeared to be Jacob's retirement.

Witness Lee

#14. She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Phyllis Bottome

#15. Coldest the remembrance of the wider ocean
wealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

Abigail Washburn

#17. The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.

Peter Capaldi

#18. I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been - if the invention of language, the formation of words, the analysis of ideas had not intervened - the means of communication between souls.

Marcel Proust

#19. No one intervened - hardly surprising, thought Rosner, for intervention would have been intolerant - and no one thought to comfort him as he lay dying.

Daniel Silva

#20. I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

Katherine Paterson

#21. We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve the white race that he had created ... I praise God all the time for AIDS.

J. B. Stoner

#22. You and I believed the gospel, not because we were wiser or more righteous than anyone else but because God graciously intervened, opening our hearts to head His Word and believe.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#23. The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries.

Noam Chomsky

#24. I knew it was a risk but what I was after was a novel that is about the feeling that comes with a coincidence in real life - that you feel as if something divine has intervened and has arrived with a message.

Alexander Chee

#25. 17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened.

Louise Gluck

#26. Zach stole my stuff!" "No, I didn't!" "It was here before I went to the bathroom and now it's gone!" Andy reached over and cuffed the boy. "That will be quite enough," Mrs. Crabtree intervened. "Andy, go to the principal's office. Now.

L.R.W. Lee

#27. Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies.

Carol Thatcher

#28. What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

Peter Schiff

#29. You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.

Tom A. Watson

#30. When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.

Laura Hillenbrand

#31. Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.

Shirley Jackson

#32. there was still a part of me that kept waiting for it all to go to hell. At least I'd stopped poking at it and trying to break it myself, that was a step up. Let's hear it for therapy and smart friends who intervened when I fell back into old destructive habits.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#33. The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,

Samantha Power

#34. The lion was quite close to him now - but a few paces intervened - he crouched, and then, with a deafening roar, he sprang.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#35. Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Lawrence Durrell

#36. I don't believe the idea of Fate is that everything in our lives is predetermined. For me, it's those moments when, on reflection, Life seems to have intervened and given us a friendly or not-so-friendly nudge in another direction.

Thea Euryphaessa

#37. In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

Noam Chomsky

#38. I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

David Axelrod

#39. The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

Jeffrey Sachs

#40. I'm ready now." If he'd intervened, it might have

Markus Zusak

#41. An element of propaganda, of sales and marketing, always intervened between the inner and the outer person.

Julian Barnes

#42. L. 151. Chthizos, yesterday. But either the word must have a more extended signification than is usually given to it, or Homer must here have fallen into an error; for two complete nights and one day, that on which Patroclus met his death, had intervened since the visit of Ajax and

Homer

#43. It was botched. A traffic police officer intervened and the whole plan fell apart. But that was from low-level external sources and had nothing to do with us. Our strike will be quick and clean. And it will succeed." "And you have your team in place?

David Baldacci

#44. The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

Stephen Kinzer

#45. And then, real life had intervened.

Brandon Sanderson