Hand Quote by Lewis Thomas

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

“Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. Ambiguity seems to be an essential, indispensable…

— Lewis Thomas

I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but…

— Jon Tester

Vanity prevents improvement

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

“What prevents my life from being a sad after-school special is I don't give a shiiit.”

— Chris Colfer

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

— Italo Calvino

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the…

— Robert Fortune

Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness…

— Vladimir Putin

“No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.”

— Paulo Freire

The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.

— Gerald Chertavian

I take a magnesium supplement before my workout because it prevents cramping.

— Jinder Mahal