Top 1200 Prevent Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We must precisely do what the terrorists prevent us to do.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Prevent your day at morning.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression of the entire twentieth century, the century of Hitler and Stalin. How much would we give to prevent those horrors? Yet how little are we doing to prevent today's even larger toll and all the misery that it involves? I believe that if you read this book to the end, and look honestly and carefully at our situation, assessing both the facts and the ethical arguments, you will agree that we must act.

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

The prevent defense prevents victory.

Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

Wisdom can’t prevent the storm.

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.

My business is to prevent the future.

Idealism doesn't prevent problems.

The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to use racism-sexism to prevent universalism from moving too far in the direction of egalitarianism; to use universalism to prevent racism-sexism from moving too far in the direction of a caste system that would inhibit the work force mobility so necessary for the capitalist accumulation process.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

I can't prevent myself of being funny.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

Islam wants to destroy us and I want to prevent it.

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.

The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again

You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.

We have to prevent loss of life.

?What is to prevent, say, an uprising?

I think it's a crime to prevent love from happening.

Fear doesn't prevent death, but it certainly prevents life.

It freshens your breath and helps prevent tartar.

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

We will prevent war, whatever it takes.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

Man is taking over the forests and polluting the oceans, the animal species are threatened. I try to contribute as much as I can. We're really messing up our environment. I try to get people more aware of what's going on so that they can, even in a local way, try to prevent pollution to their lakes and rivers and prevent nuclear dumping in the oceans - it's bad enough that they're doing it in residential areas, but putting it in the ocean! Eventually it's going to pollute our food resources and, if the ocean dies, we're gone.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

I will do everything in my power to prevent a Palestinian state

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.