Prevent Quotes
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People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
Celia Green
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While we spend our life asking questions about the nature of cancer and ways to prevent or cure it, society merrily produces oncogenic substances and permeates the environment with them.
Renato Dulbecco
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Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.
Adolf Hitler
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A short telomere represents a persistent and non-repairable damage to the cells, which is able to prevent their division or regeneration.
María Blasco Marhuenda
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You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
George Sand
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Allow yourself to go and do it wrong. Don't expect to always get it right. It will prevent you from doing anything.
Darren Hardy
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First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.
Boris Beizer
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Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.
Nathanael Emmons
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
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Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
Genevieve Behrend
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Norman R. Augustine
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If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!
Juan Manuel Santos
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A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt attention, and prevent them from putting down the book.
Ravi Subramanian
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There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand.
Eben Moglen
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I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
Pablo Picasso
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Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.
Marcel Proust
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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
George Bernard Shaw
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Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.
Charles Tillman
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For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.
Marcel Proust
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Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover.
Edwin Catmull
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I think we're going to have to take a hard look about what more we can do to prevent this kind of lone wolf attack.
Hillary Clinton
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I'm trying to see, when everything in this world conspires to prevent us from seeing.
Bram van Velde