Intervening Quotes

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.