Quotes About Avert

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

My business is to prevent the future.

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

no forces can't be too great if the evil is to be forestall.

though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

A smart man will always choose an ounce of prevention over a pound of cure," he

No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

As disquieted as if he were expected to "do something" to avert a catastrophe (as one is expected to do something about an overturned tumbler, the contents of which is about to drip over the edge of the table and into a lady's lap)…

The prophecy of doom is made to avert its coming, and it would be the height of injustice to later deride the 'alarmists' because 'it did not turn out to be so bad after all'—to have been wrong may be their merit.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

That tiny part of your soul that believes in a 'good government' ideal requires you to avert your eyes from the segment of the civil service that is attracted to the work precisely because it doesn't really want to work.

a shamefaced world of precautions and barriers which may avert evil, but which do not seem to bring good...

Like some dogs, you don't want to catch his eye.

Questioning someone who is acting as a lookout for a burglary might not result in an arrest, because there is not enough evidence of a crime in progress to support one, but that intervention will likely avert the break-in.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

A prophet does not foretell. He warns. A prophet does not speak to predict future catastrophe but rather to avert it. If a prediction comes true it has succeeded. If a prophecy comes true it has failed.

Most problems can be effectively dealt with before they are in full swing.

Better the dull pain of bitter memories, he was half inclined to think, than the raw pain of this new parting that was upon him. And there seemed to be nothing he could do to avert it.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Perplexed, I tried to avert his gaze and the piercing effect it had, not only on my own eyes but on my entire body. What is happening?