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Quotes About Prevention

What I was thinking was that she must have buggers in her bloomers or a chigger on her figger, or however you say it. It looked to me like something had better be done about it pretty quick, or her pants would start blazing and maybe they'd set the fairgrounds on fire and there'd be a panic with thousands of people getting stomped to death, not to mention the property damage. And I couldn't think of but one way to prevent it.
~ Jim Thompson
Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That's about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today's even greater scourge?
~ Jimmy Carter
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. No one's immune to bribery.
~ Joanne Harris
do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
~ Jodi Picoult
If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?
~ Jodi Picoult
They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?
~ Jodi Picoult
Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.
~ Jodi Picoult
The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.
~ Jodi Picoult
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.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
We should not have to wait until we are sick to be well.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Unknown
Do the world a favor stop cutting your arms, and slit your throat.
~ Unknown
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
~ Dave Barry
Kids, don't do drugs. Just be aware. They exist, they are real.
~ Mac Miller
If the people in horror movies listened to me they would probably still be alive.
~ Unknown
Play before you get Played, Leave Before You're Left!
~ Unknown
A person who takes warning from the mishaps of others will always be happy.
~ Unknown
Many accidents in the home occur in the kitchen, more in the bathroom but most occur in the bedroom.
~ Unknown
La predicción y la prevención del comportamiento violento forman una parte central de la práctica en psicología y en psiquiatría forense.
~ Unknown
Regimen is superior to medicine.
~ Voltaire
If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.
~ Virgil Miller Newton
Avoid activities outdoor. If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance of infection [with Zika virus].
~ Margaret Chan
If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.
~ Joel Parkinson
Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.
~ Mariska Hargitay