Quotes About Prevention

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

Suicide is not a remedy.

When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of death in the US.

If a car hasn't been driven for a long time and you take it out in the summer, adding some coolant will prevent the radiator from overheating.

I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.

My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.

The best time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the sun, staying inside as much as possible. Now I am beginning to think the most important thing is educated sun exposure, because the melanomas of today are not caused by today's sunbathing, but by our childhoods and early adolescence.

I have sun damage that I want to repair, but I also want to keep myself from further damage.

I just don't think there's a sunscreen that gives you enough protection.

Everyone, especially athletes and fans everywhere, need to make sunscreen and sun protection a priority.

It's very important to get facials. Facials and sunscreen - people don't believe that black people need sunscreen, but sunscreen with save your life.

I always wear SPF 30 sunscreen under my make-up, and I also wear a hat because taking care of my skin is important to me.

I liberally apply sunscreen and wear hats.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

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

You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you.

nip most of them in the bud

You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood.

Some U.S. states spend as much on their prisons as they do on their universities.62 Such expenditures are not the hallmarks of a well-performing economy and society. Money that is spent on "security"—protecting lives and property—doesn't add to well-being; it simply prevents things from getting worse.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

I like to say, "Nothing good happens accidently." You can catch disease, but you cannot catch health.