Preventing Quotes

214 quotes by 196 authors

From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict… — Kofi Annan
Then just live in coexistence. Live the way all poor husbands are living. Show to the world that your wife is so surrendered to you...who… — Rajneesh
During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us… — John Frohnmayer
Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial,… — Enoch
Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean. — James Richardson
We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are the people who… — Ron Paul
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the… — Benjamin Franklin
President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal? — Jay Leno
Cadavers and spirits are human refuse, and they are absurdly difficult to dispose of properly. When someone dies, a small gang of specialists is required… — Michael Cisco
Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from… — Chris Prentiss
I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy?… — Tony Robbins
I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a… — Mark Vonnegut
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility… — Theodore Roosevelt
Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states… — Hans Blix
Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer… — Gil Garcetti
There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do. — David Cottrell
Marriage can be a religious thing. It can also be a secular thing. And guess what? Not everyone in the world is of the same… — Hank Green
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and tears can do… — Rajneesh
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And… — John Dryden
Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from… — BrenÃ© Brown

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