Prevented Quotes

218 quotes by 197 authors

A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when… — Peter Medawar
Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will… — John Dean
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all… — Erasmus Darwin
The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest… — Barack Obama
Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example… — Ezekiel Emanuel
The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So… — Marcus Aurelius
In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. — Barry Commoner
We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from… — Cat Cora
Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but… — Eddie Van Halen
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority… — Aldous Huxley
I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed. — Chief Joseph
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the… — Frank B. Kellogg
I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country. — Ang Lee
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a… — Flannery O'Connor
My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how… — Barack Obama
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing… — Pope John Paul II
A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy. — Henry Paulson
Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back… — Jonathan Sacks
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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