Best Prevents Proverbs
293 Prevents quotes by 250 unique authors
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One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever…
— Jerry Spinelli
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when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the…
— David Levithan
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Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it…
— Jose Saramago
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There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.
— Clarence Jordan
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First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions…
— Michel de Certeau
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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
— Albert Camus
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Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things…
— Jodi Picoult
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We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same…
— Michael Chabon
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Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it…
— Eckhart Tolle
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...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact…
— Milan Kundera
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She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.
— Melina Marchetta
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To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night,…
— L. Frank Baum
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Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those…
— Will Self
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Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.…
— Naomi Wolf
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Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
— Stephen Sondheim
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The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it's also…
— Cesar Millan
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The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.
— Rush Limbaugh
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The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of…
— Thomas M. Disch
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Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.
— Julian Fellowes
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Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of…
— Michel Foucault
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I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
— Milton Friedman
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There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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