Quotes About Intervention

God will help you," Maggie said. "He's just waiting to be asked.

Morality has precious little to do with feeling in any case. The fact that you feel a surge of nausea at the sight of someone with half their head shot away is neither here nor there as long as you try to help them.

They don't, exactly. The threat of their intervention makes it unnecessary. Wizards call it the paradox of power: if you have power, and are ready, able, and willing to use it, you don't need to exercise your power.

stay his arm. "Dalton, don't! It's bad luck to kill a raven!" Her intervention, and the bird unexpectedly ducking, caused him to miss an easy kill.

They learned the hard way that you can't save nobody who ain't interested in being saved.

I'm a witch. It's what we do. When it's nobody else's business, it's my business.

Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout 'Attack!' but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.

There's nothing more terrible than someone out to do the world a favor.

You could say to the universe, this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn´t it? Sorry. You could save people. You could get there in the nick of time. And something could snap its fingers and say, no, it has to be this way. Let me tell you how it has to be.

As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.

Friends don't let friends jump cars.

During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.

Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered.

People have to remember that the armed forces do as democratically elected governments tell them to do. They don't arbitrarily go into countries and kick off. These are decisions that are made by our politicians.

My girl mates are my minders. They stop people kissing me in clubs.

For once, fate us taking a problem off our hands gratis. Let's smile, say thank you and stay the hell out of it!

Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the trip had been triggered by proximity to a person whose past was being threatened. I have to tell you," I said frankly, "if someone is trying to mess with your conception or something, I'm not feeling a pressing need to intervene.

You took a seal club and threw it in the water." Watson's response: "Well holy shit. The jerk was about to bash in the brains of a baby seal, for Christ's sake, I was not going to stand there and watch it.

If you have to call the police on your man, then you'd better choices. If not, what have you taught him? Better him in jail this time rather than you in the morgue the next time.

You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.

God does not step in and adjust minute details on a whim.

I want to keep her from ever changing into something so terrible as I've become.

You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.

You got here in the nick of time," Johnny said, grinning insolently at him. "I was just about to start ripping off her clothes.