Prevent Quotes

1159 Prevent quotes by 860 unique authors

The other thing is going to be me being able to show not just the American people or the Israeli people but the world that,… — Barack Obama
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.… — Colleen Hoover
A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of… — Michael Showalter
The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms race… — John F. Kennedy
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant… — Winston Churchill
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring… — Wystan Hugh Auden
People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself… — William Hazlitt
Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in… — Emma Goldman
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. — Ray Bradbury
You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your… — Paul Davies
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. — Anne Frank
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. — Benjamin Franklin
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from… — Charles de Gaulle
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. — Oliver Goldsmith
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. — Ulysses S. Grant
I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and when you care so much about… — Sidney Crosby
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent… — Rick Danko
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let… — Jefferson Davis
Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot… — Alan Dershowitz
I'm worried about privacy because of the young people who don't give a damn about their privacy, who are prepared to put their entire private… — Alan Dershowitz
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying… — Alan Dershowitz
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. — Benjamin Disraeli
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. — Wayne Dyer

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