Prevents Quotes

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

I'm not sure why anybody makes a physical CD anymore when the costs are so much lower to just throw it up on iTunes. And it doesn't seem that making a hard copy of something prevents pirating any less. I mean I'm amazed that they still do that.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.