Preemptively Quotes

#1. Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

Thomas Sowell

#2. [perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.

William Westney

#3. Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.

Bill Maris

#4. Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

Wes Nisker

#5. If you want more of Jesus, give Him more of yourself

Gangai Victor

#6. In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

Steve Buyer

#7. Falsehood is for a season.

Walter Savage Landor

#8. If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Jairam Ramesh

#9. In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

John Lancaster Spalding

#10. It's more dangerous to have a friend then it is to have an enemy.

James Jean-Pierre

#11. A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Newman

#12. Hope is expectant longing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Aoun wrote of the search for 'that good physician who would say, 'I understand that this illness is happening to you, but we will face it together.

Pauline W. Chen

#14. The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

#15. Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

Sarah Dessen

#16. We pored over the equipment and fixed what was broken, and my father taught me how to preemptively take things apart and study how they work, so that as they inevitably failed I'd be able to restore them. He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it. At

Hope Jahren

#17. Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

Geoff Mulgan

#18. Tess, there isn't a drunken, screaming netballer in the world that would have made me not want to ... continue.

C.J. Duggan

#19. I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

Louis Sachar

#20. And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

Marie Corelli

#21. I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.

Owen Pallett