Quotes About Preventing

#1. But pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being

Peter Singer

#2. I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. It was like a blackout in reverse. Since around nine o'clock, no lamps could be switched off, no electrical appliances powered down. If you tried to pull out the plug there was an alarming crackling sound and sparks flew between the outlet and the plug, preventing the circuit from being broken.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#4. Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Albert Camus

#5. The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.

Bertrand Russell

#6. Penicillin works by preventing bacteria from building their cell walls. So do its synthetic alternatives, such as amoxicillin. Tetracycline works by interfering with the internal metabolic processes by which bacteria manufacture new proteins for cell growth and replication.

David Quammen

#7. Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue.

Bill Richardson

#8. Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.

Thomas Pogge

#10. These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#11. Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

Barry Humphries

#12. The emphasis on winning is preventing kids from learning how to pass, which is the skill they ultimately need at the highest levels. The proposed solution is for top youth players to play fewer games.

Po Bronson

#13. Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

Ibn Taymiyyah

#14. I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

C.S. Lewis

#15. Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.

Rajneesh

#16. Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?

Carl Sagan

#17. Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.

Ben Bernanke

#18. The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

Max Lerner

#19. In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Bill Vaughan

#20. The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

Rick Ross

#21. Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

John W. Vessey Jr.

#22. Working together, as parents, neighbors, and law enforcement officials, we must dedicate ourselves to preventing senseless violence in our communities.

Corey Mitchell

#23. Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

Denis McDonough

#24. In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.

Marcel Proust

#25. Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

Andre Gide

#26. [ ... ]to be real
to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.

Tom McCarthy

#27. We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about.

Greg Bear

#28. Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them.

Colleen Hoover

#29. Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

Jeff Tweedy

#30. To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

Kamala Harris

#31. One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.

Trevor Howard

#32. For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

Barack Obama

#33. When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Piers Anthony

#34. A criminal will never forgive you for preventing them from committing the crime that is really in their heart.

Norman Mailer

#35. Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

Charles Caleb Colton

#36. Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#37. I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

Monica Crowley

#38. Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

Nicholas Von Hoffman

#39. We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

George W. Bush

#40. Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.

Charles James Fox

#41. All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.

John Trudell

#42. How age enamels us, she would say. It builds up in layers and locks us inside our own skin, stopping us from breaking out, preventing the outside from burrowing in.

Rosie Thomas

#43. Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

Alva Myrdal

#44. One of the most important goals to have may well be the goal to create the life you want without preventing other people from creating the life they want.

Timothy Carey

#45. It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

Voltaire

#46. Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

Christina Romer

#47. You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

Mehmet Oz

#48. So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.

Bulent Ecevit

#49. Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.

Brene Brown

#50. Solution dreams can help you overcome obstacles that are preventing you from growing into your full potential.

Pamela Cummins

#51. It's not the circumstances of your life that are preventing you from being happy; it's the excuses you're making not to be happy! Like attracts like, happiness attracts happiness, so just drop the excuses - drop every one of them - and be happy now!

Rhonda Byrne

#52. My face filled with the warm glow of embarrassment preventing me from smiling back so I turned and ran away.

Nicci Greene

#53. Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Maria Montessori

#54. Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

Eliot Engel

#55. I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.

Paul Farmer

#56. Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

Jim Cooper

#57. At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

Laurent Fabius

#58. Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.

Jan Egeland

#59. In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

P.D. James

#60. Cadavers and spirits are human refuse, and they are absurdly difficult to dispose of properly. When someone dies, a small gang of specialists is required to remove and inter the body in such a way that it can always be located precisely at any time while preventing it from ever appearing again.

Michael Cisco

#61. In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

Thomas Menino

#62. Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation - especially in its military aspects.

Charles Lindbergh

#63. Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.

Chandrakanth Natekar

#64. I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do.

Beyonce Knowles

#65. Our idea of happiness may be the very thing that's preventing us from being happy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#66. There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Theodore Roosevelt

#67. I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Bill Gates

#68. Since the opposition (shadow) is capable of preventing the audience (hero) from achieving success, the goal of a business narrative is to defeat the opposition (shadow).

Luis Cubero

#69. Is neither a cure for AIDS nor a way of preventing infection with HIV.

John Mills

#70. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#71. Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.

Marsha M. Linehan

#72. The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

Adolf Hitler

#73. When I observed a strong man approaching I generally took advantage of him by being a little quicker than he was and seizing him by the tip of the fingers, giving him a hearty shake, and thus preventing him from getting a full grip upon me.

James K. Polk

#74. The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#75. What the fuck had that got to do with me? I sent her a look of sympathy and concentrated on preventing my eyes from wandering, which can easily happen in such situations.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#76. Fiber has a beneficial effect in preventing colon cancer.

David Jenkins

#77. It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

George Bernard Shaw

#78. Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.

Steve Maraboli

#79. you should also take care in preventing people from dumping negative thoughts into your brain. Healthy bodies require healthy diets that are free of junk, and cultivating a healthy mind requires much the same.

Mike Mitchell

#80. Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.

Paul Stamets

#81. Sighing, she looked out at the fog. It was like life, preventing her from seeing what was beyond reach. She wasn't unhappy. She simply felt that something important was missing from her life

Lorraine Heath

#82. Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

William Graham Sumner

#83. The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.

Ralph Raico

#84. If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions for people, I am likely to shock some of my friends.

Richard Dawkins

#85. Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

Frans De Waal

#86. It turned out keeping reality bound by mathematical laws was a useful hack preventing the Devil from existing.

Scott Alexander

#87. If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.

Ha-Joon Chang

#88. Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.

Laurence Overmire

#89. Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

Gil Garcetti

#90. There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#91. Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial.

Theresa May

#92. Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

Paul Ryan

#93. but he did not change his purpose, nor did the universe invite him to change. It accepted the choice; no more preventing him than it prevents a child playing with fire or a fool destroying his love. It has not our kindness or our decency; if it is good, its goodness is of another kind than ours.

Charles Williams

#94. In 1788, the Chimney Sweepers Act was passed in Parliament, preventing master sweeps from employing children under eight (children over eight were allowed to be apprenticed).

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#95. We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

David Whyte

#96. Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.

Nita Ambani

#97. It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.

Sandra Bernhard

#98. Do not fall for the illusion that by preventing errors, you won't have errors to fix. The truth is, the cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.

Ed Catmull

#99. Stop preventing philosophers from possessing money; no one has condemned wisdom to poverty. I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.

Seneca.

#100. (not a shadow thereof, but a real degree, by the preventing grace of God,)

John Wesley