Intervention Quotes
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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Candidate Trump held out his hand to Vladimir Putin. He rejected further U.S. intervention in Syria other than to smash ISIS.
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There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.
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Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.
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I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.
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It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of self-definition. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs.
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An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.
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Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings, and nature is still a matter of survival of the fittest. The survival of variegated plants depends on human intervention.
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
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Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.
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[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.
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A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.
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Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.
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The point is that no matter what you do or don’t do, you are sending signals; you are intervening in the situation and therefore need to be mindful of that reality. Unless you are invisible you cannot help but communicate, so your choice of communication should be based on what kind of intervention you intend.
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Everything You Say or Do Is an Intervention that Determines the Future of the Relationship.
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Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.
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Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
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Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.
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Under the aegis of wildlife management, the oxymoron that is now a fact of life for most North American creatures, spins unbounded tinkering, with further tinkering made necessary by past tinkering, effects of causes, effects of effects—a “cascade of consequences” precipitated by human intervention, well intended though it may be.
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The United States only knows one form of intervention and that is the military one. Everything depends on drawn weapons. We should, however, develop a wider scope of action. And we should learn to be patient.
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If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.
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We are a fighting nation, continually struggling to overcome diseases from within... and to face up to foreign intervention from without.
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I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
