Prevent Quotes

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It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no… — Soren Kierkegaard
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting… — George Bernard Shaw
I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it. — Jane Austen
There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective… — Matt Taibbi
If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. — Coco Chanel
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to… — C.S. Lewis
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now,… — Eckhart Tolle
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake. — Hannah Arendt
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't… — Albert Camus
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to… — Jane Austen
She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made… — Paulo Coelho
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore
Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues,… — J P Donleavy
In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive.… — Temple Grandin
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Say â€œnoâ€ only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay.… — Gretchen Rubin
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength… — Ann Patchett
During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing… — Chuck Palahniuk
You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried… — Meg Wolitzer

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