Quotes About Prevention

I think if she'd been more careful this whole thing could've been avoided," he said stiffly. "I mean, use a condom. How hard is that? A buck at the drugstore and this whole thing would never have happened.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

The third preventive for callousness is the life of prayer (Heb. 4:14–16).

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Mr Pickwick awoke the next morning, there was not a symptom of rheumatism about him; which proves, as Mr Bob Sawyer very justly observed, that there is nothing like hot punch in such cases; and that if ever hot punch did fail to act as a preventive, it was merely because the patient fell in to the vulgar error of not taking enough of it.

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time--but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

We tend to look at these problems through exclusively western, or at least narrowly national, eyes. About 40,000 children died today of hunger. Tens of thousands more died of malaria, and tens of thousands more of waterborne infectious diseases. Almost all of these were preventable. The money spent on a few heart transplants in elderly westerners would have saved almost all those lives.

When you say, "The burned child dreads the fire," you mean that he is already a master of induction.

Be alert! Accidents hurt.

Flies spread disease — keep yours zipped.

The way to avoid the tragedies of the past is not to let them happen to begin with.

A birth control pill for men, that's fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest.

Around forty children die every year after they're forgotten in a car

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

The worst possible approach to a problem is waiting until it becomes overwhelming or irreversible, and that is exactly what many people do. They put dealing with stress on the backburner until they start to experience all the worst symptoms of stress, and by then, it may be too late!

If knowing about the dangers of smoking were enough, almost no one would smoke.

Omega-3 fatty acids in the treatment and prevention of Crohn's disease, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.

Advice: Don't wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you're related to — gets shot before you work it out.

Remembering pain is how you learn never to let the cause of it happen again