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Quotes About Prevent

My children will suffer in ways I fear I can foresee but am hopeless to prevent.
~ Todd May
But it seems that the government had a true account of it, and several counsels 5 were held about ways to prevent its coming over; but all was kept very private.
~ Daniel Defoe
I'm just trying to save our family some embarrassment.
~ Chris Columbus
The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.
~ Philip Emeagwali
Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.
~ Alex Pareene
Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.
~ Wilhelm Reich
The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.
~ Paulo Coelho
There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.
~ Christopher Bollen
There was a brittleness in her tone, and Baphen was uncomfortably reminded that some prophecies are fulfilled by the very actions meant to prevent them.
~ Holly Black
some prophecies are fulfilled by the very actions meant to prevent them.
~ Holly Black
ones trying to prevent him from executing the agenda that the American people installed
~ David Horowitz
Although what I have basically been doing about the rain is ignoring it, to tell the truth. How I do that is by walking in it. I did not fail to notice that those last two sentences must certainly look like a contradiction, by the way. Even if they are on such thing. One can very agreeably ignore a rain by walking in it. In fact it is when one allows a rain to prevent one from walking in it that one is failing to ignore it.
~ David Markson
I do appreciate, Ernestine, that your first instinct is not to prevent me from doing something scandalous, but to help me get away with it.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Thwart, I said. To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition. Sarissa said. It is today.
~ Jim Butcher
Thwart: to prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.
~ Jim Butcher
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.
~ Jim Butcher
Things happened in life that mothers could not prevent or fix.
~ Joan Didion
We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes being corrected.
~ Dale Ahlquist
Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.
~ Laurence Tribe
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.
~ Jefferson Davis
to take steps to avoid
~ Unknown
Remember, discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate
~ John Wooden