Top 100 Quotes About Prevents
#1. A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
Norman Reilly Raine
#2. Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.
Jeremy Rifkin
#4. What prevents my life from being a sad after-school special is I don't give a shiiit.
Chris Colfer
#5. The supposition that one sex needs the other's acquiescence in order to exist prevents both from moving together as self-defined persons toward a common goal.
Audre Lorde
#6. My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.
Mary Harron
#7. Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance
Nancy Pelosi
#8. Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
#9. The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time.
Henry Moore
#10. One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact do not touch everywhere. The bumpiness at all scales prevents that. Even in rock under enormous pressure, at some sufficiently small scale it becomes clear that gaps remain, allowing fluid to flow.
James Gleick
#11. Dreaming big is very easy, but the anticipation one feels when the dream is almost fulfilled, is unsettling. It is like starving for the cake which you can see on the table, but an unknown fear makes you feel sick and prevents you from taking it
Anamika Mishra
#12. When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.
Summer Glau
#13. Complex prevents a person from implementing his potentials
Sunday Adelaja
#14. Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.
Nawal El Saadawi
#16. Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.
William Wallace
#17. Life is like a trek to the mountain top. Everyone will eventually climb to the top. Later, or sooner, doesn't matter. What matters is - the person who holds your hand and prevents you from falling, the one who is always there to ease the climb for you ...
Mehek Bassi
#18. For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor
Napoleon Bonaparte
#19. I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#20. I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.
Giacomo Casanova
#21. Perfection is an illusion which often prevents us from accepting the realities of life.
Sandeep Sharma
#23. The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.
Steven Pressfield
#24. I do want people to know that, and I think it's important for everybody to understand I have a record, I have stood firm and I will be the person who prevents them from ever wrecking the economy again.
Hillary Clinton
#25. True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau
#26. Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.
John Welwood
#27. The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord's voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. Its really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.
Radhanath Swami
#28. In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
Albert Einstein
#29. We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.
George W. Bush
#30. I don't want to think anymore. Thinking prevents you from living.
Matthew Sharpe
#31. Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel Proust
#32. The resistance to the mimetic contagion prevents the myth from taking shape. The conclusion in the light of the Gospels is inescapable: myths are the voice of communities that unanimously surrender to the mimetic contagion of victimization.
Rene Girard
#33. The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.
Dov Davidoff
#34. Isn't it fascinating that he mainly dates women with limited English? But I guess it prevents a silly thing like conversation from interfering with sex.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#35. I'm not sure why anybody makes a physical CD anymore when the costs are so much lower to just throw it up on iTunes. And it doesn't seem that making a hard copy of something prevents pirating any less. I mean I'm amazed that they still do that.
Cliff Martinez
#36. No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.
Orison Swett Marden
#37. A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.
Joan Miro
#38. All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.
Karlfried Graf Durckheim
#39. Jefferson writes dismissively of slaves that "their griefs are transient." American white supremacists to this day maintain that blacks are "mud people" because their lack of conscience prevents them from blushing - they are not capable of summoning "blood in the face," as the
Christopher Hitchens
#40. The struggle against an obstacle inevitably propels the fighter to a new level of functioning. The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.
Ryan Holiday
#41. Some people have to leave your life because their very presence prevents, perverts & distorts your purpose. Don't be afraid to let go.
Renita Bryant
#42. Ordinarily we think sex makes people loving - sex can never make people loving. In fact, it is sexuality that prevents love from growing - because it is the same energy that has to become love. It is being destroyed in sex. To become love, the same energy has to move to the heart centre.
Rajneesh
#43. If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men.
Ludwig Von Mises
#44. What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.
Peter Kreeft
#45. Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether
E.W. Bullinger
#46. We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
Paul Valery
#47. I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.
Arnold Palmer
#48. If the blaming action produces a false apology, patronization of the moral code, and false promises with no intention of complying with moral law, it prevents satisfaction in the victim.
Karin Huffer
#49. Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
Laozi
#50. But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.
Carlton Fisk
#51. Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.
Semir Zeki
#52. So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.
Barack Obama
#53. Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.
Mark Crispin Miller
#54. Truly, fear is a powerful force. In one way or another fear prevents people from getting what they want from life. Fear
David J. Schwartz
#55. Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.
Thomas Merton
#56. Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
B.R. Ambedkar
#58. Perfectionism prevents action. Waiting until you have devised the perfect solution to something is merely a form of procrastination.
Staffan Noteberg
#59. There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#60. Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.
Lu Yu
#61. What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up
Susan Sontag
#62. There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.
Jo Walton
#63. Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content.
Steven Pinker
#64. It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.
Gudjon Bergmann
#66. Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
Albert Camus
#67. In our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)
Milan Kundera
#68. Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler
#69. The spirit of commerce ... renders every man willing to live on his own property ... & prevents the growth of luxury.
Baron De Montesquieu
#70. You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.
Pascal Bruckner
#71. Jealousy is the foundation of equality, but not of liberty ; putting man constantly on his guard against the encroachments of his neighbors. It prevents affability between different classes. There is no society without affection, without tradition, without respect, without mutual amenity.
Ernest Renan
#72. Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
U.S. Army
#73. Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.
David Brooks
#74. Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.
Sam Kean
#75. The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
Helena Blavatsky
#76. The problem with responsibility is it often prevents you from doing what you want to do.
Caleb Cleek
#77. It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically programmed behavior in human beings more than in any other species.
Carl Sagan
#78. To keep the wrong leader in the wrong place prevents the right leader from being in the right place.
Aubrey Malphurs
#79. Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.
Mabel Collins
#80. She asked me what type of contraceptive I use.
Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.
Melina Marchetta
#81. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
#82. What worries me," he adds, "is that this circus-like atmosphere may have scared off many young scientists. It actually has a chilling effect. It prevents scientists from participating in the public discourse, because they fear they, or their department head, will be threatened.
Jane Mayer
#83. A congeries of motives prevents us from blowing up our spinning mills and reviving the distaff. Gandhi had a try at this sort of revolution: he was as simple-minded as a child trying to empty the sea on to the sand with the aid of a tea-cup.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#84. Fear is a snare that prevents us from moving forward, fear makes us an easy bait for the devil
Sunday Adelaja
#86. To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#87. I am the fierce one who threatens death to scoundrels, Darcy." Fitzwilliam scolded. "You are the one who keeps a cool head and prevents it. That is the order of things.
Diana J. Oaks
#88. This idealization of clinical perfection prevents us from being in the moment. It stops us from appreciating our experience as beautiful despite the "flaws" because, deep down, we are so ashamed of ourselves for not living up to these expectations of perfection that we can barely breathe. In
Robin Elizabeth
#89. Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
Richard Stallman
#90. I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.
Scarlett Johansson
#91. The goal of using our voice is not just to be noticed, but with humility to gracefully be fully present in relationships. Deferring to another person does not require that we be ignored; allowing that is cowardice. Hiding, a form of dishonesty, prevents true community.
Rosalie De Rosset
#92. It is not possible to keep abreast of the normal tides of acquisition. A home is like a reservoir equipped with a check valve: the valve permits influx but prevents outflow.
E.B. White
#93. There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Charles Caleb Colton
#94. Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#95. knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings
Sunday Adelaja
#96. What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
Horace
#97. Love is the most infectious disease, so spread it as much as you can, as quick as you can; there is no remedy for love but it prevents all other diseases from spreading.
Debasish Mridha
#98. There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs ... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#99. I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have fifty cents left in my bank account" is a fact. Facing facts is always empowering. Be
Eckhart Tolle
#100. Our suppressing who we are to fit in is exhausting. It kills flow and creativity. It also prevents genuine connection with others.
Henna Inam
