Intervention Quotes · Page 6

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

— Philip Yancey

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

— Philipp Melanchthon

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

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

“The time of neutrality is over,this is the time of intervention where we can learn to grab the bull by the horns.”

— Euginia Herlihy

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

— Paul Wolfowitz

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if…

— Henry David Thoreau

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose,…

— Stockwell Day

As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from…

— Thomas Huxley

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean…

— Tomas Borge

The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning,…

— Jaimal Yogis

Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our…

— Darell Hammond

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

— Jurgen Habermas

I've been studying sexism for many years, and it's much easier to document the existence of sexism than it is to document…

— Amy Cuddy

One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and…

— Laura Mulvey

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.…

— Edward Said

People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are…

— Margaret Thatcher

There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign…

— Vladimir Semichastny

Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings,…

— Allen Lacy

The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate…

— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been…

— Martin Jacques

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need…

— Robin Hobb

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great…

— Paul Goodman

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

— Remy de Gourmont

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

— China Mieville

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not,

— Janet Yellen

With MOOCs, “the real question becomes, where is human intervention important?

— Shirley Ann Jackson

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

— Mike Jackson

Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an…

— Felipe Esparza

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

— Kenny Cunningham

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

— Beverly Sills

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

— Bessel van der Kolk

If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.

— Marshall Ganz

Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.

— David Mura

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

— Paul Tournier

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

— Albert Einstein

America should always stand for human rights and freedom, but not through endless military intervention.

— Ro Khanna