Quotes About Intervene

There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene.

And now the rains had really come, so heavy and persistent that even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health. The personal dynamism required to counter the forces of these extremes of weather would be far too great for the human frame.

Hope was a bedfellow to prayer—a lifeline for the despondent; those too weak to take matters into their own hands. How many times had he heard someone utter the phrase, I hope to God? Well, he had news for those people. God intervened only when the urge took him. No, He couldn't be counted on for much.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

As part of the appeasement policy there must be a settlement with the Duce—all according to that world conqueror's wishes. They would recognize his title to Abyssinia and his right to intervene in the Spanish war. The Loyalists there were still holding out, in spite of Franco's frequent announcements that they were beaten. Now the British would recognize Franco's belligerency, and would force the French to do the same.

As modern tyrannies are swept away (and every honest heart delights), the quick-thinking servants of the world's great powers still proffer plans to intervene, to jostle, scheme and sponsor factions that they barely understand.

If you do something that is forbidden, it is the action that is the target. If you do something that isn't forbidden, and they intervene, then it's not the activity that's attracting attention, it's you yourself.

But history shows that when courts intervene because a president is trying to shield his own conduct, the deck is stacked against him.

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.

Attempts to take control violate the cardinal rule for providing a secure base: intervene only when asked to or when it is absolutely necessary.

It must be every critic's dream when you're at something utterly intolerable to actually get up and intervene and make it stop.

What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.

This is a quantum universe,' said Spike, 'neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.

Young Surrey now lays down his knife and begins to complain. Noblemen, he laments, are not respected as they were in the days when England was great. The present king keeps about himself a collection of men of base degree, and no good will come of it. Cranmer creeps forward in his chair, as if to intervene, but Surrey gives him a glare that says, you're exactly who I mean, archbishop.

As a frequent rider of the subway myself, I cannot count the number of times I have had to personally intercede in a physical or verbal altercation, whether on the platform or in a subway car.

Oh dear. I have just seen Angus hunkering down in the long grass. He's stalking their poodle. I'll have to intervene to avert a massacre. Oh, it's OK, Mrs. Next Door has thrown a brick at him.

If you do something that is forbidden, it is the action that is the target. If you do something that isn't forbidden, and they intervene, then it's not the activity that's attracting the attention, it is you yourself.

I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

You can make an instinctive DIFFERENCE in a matter of seconds! Seconds are so precious...you never know, you can save someone's life if you just intervene as quickly as you can...So never ignore it cause every seconds counts!

This split the scientific community up into factions and promoted conflict. This was Stalin's objective. It permitted him to intervene and take sides whenever deemed necessary

The public cares little about science, except insofar as its conclusions can be made to intervene in behalf of some moral, religious or social controversy.

IT is strange how the outer world surrounds yet never touches the inner; how the gay and lighter threads of life intervene yet never mingle with those that are darkest and sternest, as the parasite clings to the forest tree, united yet ever dissimilar!