Not Intervening Quotes

#1. I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

Michael Todd

#2. And we have much better examples of the government not intervening to curtain parental rights, much worse abuse than a simple tap on the hand or a spank is perpetrated by many parents across the country, trust me.

Sean Hannity

#3. Government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

Camille Paglia

#4. All the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.

Ernest Cline

#5. Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours ...

Simone De Beauvoir

#6. Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more.

Oliver DeMille

#7. All of the questions that had been open when my head had hit the pillow were still pending. But in the intervening hours, my brain had been changing to fit the new shape of my world. I guess that's why we can't do anything else when we're sleeping: it's when we work hardest.

Neal Stephenson

#8. Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty

Frederic Bastiat

#9. For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

Nick Bostrom

#10. The intervening years are sucked down these acheronian halls like light into a black hole while you helplessly teeter upon the event horizon, where time is measured by the beating of a fly's wing in the stagnant air.

Rick Yancey

#11. People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block the sensible collaboration between two NHS hospitals. They can no longer deny it, it's absolutely clear.

Andy Burnham

#12. Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

William Ames

#13. They care for, protect, and guide God's people, frequently intervening or bring messages to people from God.

Mary C. Neal

#14. Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal - the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?

Roger Zelazny

#15. With vivid memories of the last IRS form I had signed, I agreed sympathetically that a two percent tax rate was a positive outrage, wondering to myself just what had become of the fiery spirit of American taxpayers over the intervening two hundred years.

Diana Gabaldon

#16. Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.

David Brooks

#17. There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Colin Powell

#18. The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

H.G.Wells

#20. As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.

Bob Ainsworth

#21. Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.

Michael Chabon

#22. All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product

Sol LeWitt

#23. [Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

Albert Bandura

#24. Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

Judith Butler

#25. I think everybody should have the choice [with drugs] the same as helmets. You should be able to say whether you want to wear one or not. By making drugs illegal, the government is intervening into our lives a little too much.

Sonny Barger

#26. You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.

J.K. Rowling

#27. As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.

Sonia Sotomayor

#28. No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

Myrtle Reed

#29. My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.

Radka Donnell

#30. He went three hundred yards up the slope to the other hotel, he engaged a room, and found himself washing without a memory of the intervening ten minutes, only a sort of drunken flush pierced with voices, unimportant voices that did not know how much he was loved.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#31. Never had the opportunity in her first lost childhood; and in the intervening years her desire for it had doubled over and doubled over like a katana being forged until finally it was sharper than the truth.

Junot Diaz

#32. No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.

Kevin Rudd

#33. Therefore the whole apparatus of piety, Hindu and Moslem alike - the temple and mosque, idol and holy water, scriptures and priests - were denounced by this inconveniently clear-sighted poet as mere substitutes for reality; dead things intervening between the soul and its love -

Rabindranath Tagore

#34. I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

Philip Yancey

#35. My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility

Camille Paglia

#36. As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening years, I moved into the 1 percent.

Graydon Carter

#37. I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.

Marilynne Robinson

#38. He was a God who observed without intervening in this hell he created"
-Carlisle

David Morrell

#39. Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.

Seth Shostak

#40. From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#41. Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. other powers only
recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#42. People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

Eric Cantor

#43. In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.

Hugo Chavez

#44. Fate always had a way of intervening. Pushed everyone in the right direction. The thing with fate though, was that someone always got hurt.

S.E. Jakes

#45. Always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

Stella Benson

#46. The prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders encompasses intervening in the early years

James M. Kauffman

#47. All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.

Henry David Thoreau

#48. Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#49. Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Oliver Goldsmith

#50. The Master encouraged us to gain friends, that is, to expand our circle of friends through which we can feel more intensive protection in a spirit of cooperation and through intervening values.

Chico Xavier

#51. It may never be said that like the state and the church, science arose because of sin and thus from an intervening grace.

Abraham Kuyper

#52. How had I managed to edit all this out in the intervening years? How had I managed to turn her into the answer to all the world's problems?

Nick Hornby