Prevents Quotes

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.