Prevents Quotes

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.

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

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

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

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

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

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.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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.

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.