Preempt Quotes

#1. You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

Wangari Maathai

#2. In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.

Henry A. Kissinger

#3. I don't wanna preempt an announcement next week. And there's a lot of technical aspects to it. And if I - say - that we're doing one thing. then the markets might interpret it differently from what it ends up being.

Barack Obama

#4. Does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

Tao Lin

#5. Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]

Mary Catherine Bateson

#6. When nature called, the men would relieve themselves in a pot at the sideboard without interrupting their conversation, an English custom instituted not so much for convenience as to preempt any excuse for the weak of stomach or head to sneak out before the drinking was finished.

Nina Burleigh

#7. To preempt rejection she dresses to exaggerate her difference when the true enemy is not the world's disdain but its indifference. He is surely the next item in a dreary procession and cannot be seen for all those previous disappointments.

Colson Whitehead

#8. But when it's read another way, the explanation makes perfectly good sense: Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death.

Daniel Quinn

#9. Last night, President Bush gave a prime-time press conference. It was such a big deal that Fox decided to preempt American Idol. Which made sense to me, you don't want too many amateurs on in one night.

David Letterman

#10. I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

James Lee Burke

#11. If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

John Lewis Gaddis

#12. When someone has come to you for your expertise and your expertise has failed, what do you have left? You have only your character to fall back upon - and

Atul Gawande

#13. The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person

Brian Tracy

#14. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Stephen King

#15. There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

Richard Sibbes

#16. that in itself age doesn't make anyone better or wiser, but only accentuates what they have always been.

Isabel Allende

#17. The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost.

Robert H. Goddard