Quotes About Intervention

We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.

A friend, will keep the secret of who you like. A good friend will tell you to ask them out, but a best friend will drag you over to them and make you talk.

Advising is easier than helping

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.

Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.

Because in most cases, I believe that people deserve a second chance. And because I couldn't have lived with myself if I'd stood by and let them both die souless, when I could have helped.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

What do you do with the kid who can't read?... You find a pay phone as fast as you can and rectify your idiotic mistake.

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

Suffering offers a general message of warning to all humanity that something is wrong with this planet, and that we need radical outside intervention

I can view prayer as a way of asking a timeless God to intervene more directly in our time-bound life on earth. (Indeed, I do so all the time, praying for the sick, for the victims of tragedy, for the safety of the persecuted church.)

When I pray, coincidences happen," said Archbishop William Temple; "when I don't, they don't.

Although Jesus' prayers do not offer a foolproof formula, they do give clues as to how God works — and does not work — on this planet. Especially when trouble strikes, we want God to intervene more decisively, but Jesus' prayers underscore God's style of restraint out of respect for human freedom.

The dogs were fighting now, and Judd throws his Pabst can at 'em. "You-all shut up!" he yells. "Hush up!" The can hits the biggest dog, and they all

Was Agent XOX to die a drowning death? You let go of her! came Eddie's voice, and suddenly Eddie had one arm, Beth the other, and they were pulling her the other way. Back and forth, back and forth. Secret Agent XOX was going to die a stretching death instead. Torn limb from limb.

Sometimes the divine intervention of God means breaking allegiance with what you love.

such a God as the theologians would have us pray to—a God who in a world of suffering aids some but not others—cannot contain the mercy ascribed to him. Therefore, I say: such God as we pray to does not exist. And to this I add: there is no divine intervention. There is no divine judge. So we must supply for ourselves notions of good and ill. This is the purview and millstone of the philosophe.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

That was when you discovered she'd recently begun using PCP—what's sometimes called 'angel dust' on the street.

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.

There is work for us to do to be God's partner as it were and to continue. There is something for every one of you to do as a partner with God in this world. He has rested and as it were now, we take over. Later, God does not intervene quite as much as obviously as God did with the Exodus of Egypt.