Prevent Quotes

1159 Prevent quotes by 860 unique authors

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with… — Marcus Aurelius
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour. — Maya Angelou
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! — Unknown Author
Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity. — Austin O'Malley
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear. — Bill Joy
Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be… — Dale E. Turner
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential... Its… — Steven Pressfield
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with… — Gerhard Richter
The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the… — Rupert Sheldrake
It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and hence, what we should expect would be… — Ian Wilmut
The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border. — Goldwin Smith
Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce… — Rick Renzi
it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. — Mary Martha Sherwood
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce… — Luther Burbank
...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Those who commit these types of scandals are guility of the spiritual equivalent of murder, but I, here among you to prevent something far worst… — Saint Francis de Sales
It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying. — Napoleon Bonaparte
[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to… — Harold B. Lee
It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and… — Jawaharlal Nehru
The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the… — Theodore Roosevelt
And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight,… — Thomas Paine
I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad enough that people… — Judy Woodruff
The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent… — Natalie Portman

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