Intervention Quotes · Page 6

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

— Bessel van der Kolk

The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

— Beverly Sills

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

— Kenny Cunningham

Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.

— Andy Stanley

The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.

— Bill O'Brien

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

— Bianca Jagger

“Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.”

— David Rains Wallace

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

— Stockwell Day

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick.…

— Bill Maher

As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling…

— S. Jay Olshansky

The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different…

— Milton Friedman

The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953…

— Edward Said

What happened in the following years? Well, I think that among the educated classes it stayed the same. You talk about humanitarian…

— Noam Chomsky

The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so…

— Alain de Botton

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15…

— John Stossel

It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the…

— Henry Adams

One of the most consistent findings about low performing schools and students is that "home variables" (parental income and education, etc.) are…

— Nicholas Lemann

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the…

— Alexander Kluge

I'm in my truck talking to Jesus. And you can see a World Series ring on my right pinkie finger. But when…

— Denis Leary

With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of…

— Michael Parenti

We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and…

— Walter Ciszek

At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot…

— Richard Bentall

If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually…

— Conrad Black

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

— Stephen Hawking

[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.

— Cynthia Heimel

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

— Rafael Sabatini

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

— Philipp Melanchthon

If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.

— Billy Graham

“The wisest investments are made in good health intervention activities.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

— Mahatma Gandhi

The best motivating factor of all, however, is divine intervention, or what I like to call The Magic of Grace.

— Cheryl Richardson

I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.

— Paul Virilio

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

— Mark Batterson

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

— Philip Yancey

I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs.

— Abby Martin

Ed Timpson is a fantastic minister for early intervention, and Liz Truss is a fantastic minister for Sure Start.

— Andrea Leadsom

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

— Atul Gawande

The 'boom-bust' cycle is generated by monetary intervention in the market, specifically bank credit expansion to business.

— Murray Rothbard