Prevent Quotes

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering. Henri Nouwen
Life Man Remove Victim Consistently Entering Able Slowly Spirit Prevent Longer Obstacles Himself His Articulate Movements Who Inner Inner Life Need
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. Anne Frank
Matter Will Girl Only Prevent Could Boy Being Even
What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it. Bryan Singer
Respect Better Evil Understanding Complexity Kind Prevent Call Understand Any Just Acknowledgement Means Help Deserve Deserves Necessarily
The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences. George Soros
Result Negative Consequences Other Other Countries States Costs Prevent Countries Most Becoming Did Substance Used Illegal Many United United States Extensive Widely
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us. Henri Nouwen
Responsibility First Our Destroying Prevent Midst Us Violence
We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation. Howard Schultz
Day People Political Gun Situation Difficult One Day Prevent Between Woke Up Very Middle Want Who Sudden Starbucks Bring Fragile
If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you. Iyanla Vanzant
Love You Respect Human Being Fear Losing Will Pain Other Others Visited Perceived Prevent Devastation Share Greatest Loss Same Human Being Order Anything Your Avoid Connection Trauma Humans Chances
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. Jessamyn West
Ignorance Communication First Young Alive Prevent Fact Between Longer Still Forgetfulness Often Middle Middle-Aged Aged Elders Themselves Youthful Barriers Second Two
Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests. Melody Beattie
Best People Guilt Setting Other Our Would Would-Be Best Interests Prevent Boundaries Us Interests
If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic. Paul Hawken
You Change Corruption Natural Focus Those Though Threatened Prevent Institutions Know Get Trying Then Really Pessimistic Even
What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing. Paul Ryan
Attitude Me Country Matters Think Exactly Exactly What See Guy Prevent Advance Ideas Know Coming Doing Debt Where Happening Should Actually Right Numbers Position
The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Pope Benedict XVI
Church Way Only Prevent Spread Proven Traditional Teaching
I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang. Richard Chamberlain
Hurt Dangerous Better Feelings White Everyone Boomerang Tells Lies Someone Prevent Feel Suppose Make Quite Often Being Little White Lies Necessary
I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office. Sean Elliott
You People Doctor Simple Progressing Kidney Detection Prevent Head Like Know Test Doing Off Office Disease Maybe Stop After Transplant
It doesn't matter how hard you work, there are forces that kind of prevent you from being the best you can be. Shahid Khan
Work Best You Matter Kind Prevent Forces How Being Hard Being The Best
Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror. Shimon Peres
Ignorance Poverty Borders Prevent Wire Firing Terror Does Shells Eradicated Rockets Artillery Stop Which Barbed Barbed Wire
When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself. T. E. Lawrence
God Myself Angry Lie Become Our Sun Shade Prevent Sorrows Globe Content Am Till Pray Forever Want Fiery Swing
We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio? Joseph B. Wirthlin
Morning You Threshold First Analyzed Way Brothers Data Prevent Wright Wright Brothers He Excitement New Journeys Polio Discoveries Anticipation The Wright Brothers Flight Ever Imagine
This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
You Organization Hell Prevent Take Going Heaven Created
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do. A. S. Byatt
You Fear Try Dreadful More Prevent Self Revealing
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either. Ada Yonath
Women Progressing Neighborhood Though Prevent Encourage Either Really
When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns. Adam Cohen
People Gun Lobby Logic Guns Laws Prevent Clear Like Does Legislation Owning Fights Using
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place. Ahmed Chalabi
You Fight Corruption First Prevent High-Profile Investigations Taking Bound First Place Arrest Place Against Successful
All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so. Al Sharpton
Vote Women Law Politician Background Status All Women Prevent Economic Doing Regardless Racial Should Her Right
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy. Alan Dershowitz
Law Will Important State More Prevent Prevention Area Preventive Written Concept Wrongs Deal How Occur Legacy Than Articles Trying After Moving Them Much
It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony. Alan Greenspan
Exhausted Down Markets Prolongs Perceived Only Prevent Merely Trying Going Just Them Turn Themselves Agony Downside
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