Prevented Quotes

218 quotes by 193 authors

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We know the cause of SIDS. We can and have prevented them. It's all done with a compound called ascorbate. Not to use it means… — Archie Kalokerinos
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. — Charles Caleb Colton
The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten… — Grover Cleveland
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of… — John Desmond Bernal
There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the… — Condoleezza Rice
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime. — Ignatius Loyola
For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise,… — Evan Davis
My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK,… — Emmanuelle Beart
Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for… — Sibel Edmonds
How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves?… — John C. Calhoun
We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented. — James Martineau
The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented. — Edward Irving
Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never… — Og Mandino
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. — Robert Breault
I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that… — Troy King
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it… — William James
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take… — William Cowper

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