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Quotes About Interference

dumped an enormous IKEA package in the house: presumably it would change the landscape if and when I got up the energy to assemble it, but until then it was just there, in the middle of everything, where I barked my shin or banged my elbow on it every time I tried to get past.
~ Tana French
Special counsel Robert Mueller, investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, provided ample evidence that the president should be investigated for obstruction of justice in his attempt to quell the Russia investigation by firing Comey and urging aides to lie.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
~ Diane Ackerman
The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
~ Vladimir Putin
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
~ Amelia Barr
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
~ Plato
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
~ Lysander Spooner
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
~ Charles Dickens
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
~ Ayn Rand
You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Noise" includes any unwanted signal that contaminates the target of measurement.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The scientific community needs to defend itself against political interference, no matter how cleverly it is concealed. If science is to come first, we don't have a choice as to whether to become politically active. If you're inactive, you're colluding in someone else's politics.
~ Chris Knight
You know me, gattina, you're just conditioned to think you can't trust anyone. He did that to you. Don't let him interfere with us. You have the right to live your life, Grace.
~ Christine Feehan
The level of intensity fluctuates according to time and place, but it can be stated as a truth that religion does not, and in the long run cannot, be content with its own marvelous claims and sublime assurances. It must seek to interfere with the lives of nonbelievers, or heretics, or adherents of other faiths. It may speak about the bliss of the next world, but it wants power in this one.
~ Christopher Hitchens
This trifecta turned the book into the best-known nonfiction work of the 1960s. Silent Spring presented the use of DDT as one of the most consequential human interferences in the natural order of things, and the book was intended to make the widest possible public impact.
~ Vaclav Smil
As with arsenical candles and papers and fabrics, items become established in commerce before their dangers are recognized, ensuring that any attempt to curtail their use will be resisted by manufacturers … and fought or ignored by politicians ideologically opposed to government interference …' Gettler's
~ Val McDermid
Nessuno è meglio adatto a spiare le azioni d'una persona, di coloro cui non riguardano.
~ Victor Hugo
Interference in the internal affairs of one nation by another is an unpardonable violation of international law and custom.
~ L. Fletcher Prouty
The spook begins to interfere with the writer's normal mental processes. Sometimes the ghost, by appealing to the writer's sympathies, tempts the writer to imitate him in one way or another. Catherine says that, when I was working on Lovecraft, I even began to dress in the style affected by HPL, like that of a well-bred undertaker.
~ L. Sprague de Camp
You are interfering in my business, warlock." Magnus spat blood into his face. "You are torturing a child in my city, Shadowhunter. [...] I thought we were playing a game where we said what the other person was and what we were doing." Magnus told him. "Did I get it wrong? Can I guess again? are you breaking your own sacred Laws, asshole?
~ Cassandra Clare
Men and women in the creative arts should be free to express themselves, creatively, without interference from those who are without honor where having talent is concerned.
~ Cat Ellington
You ain't no woodstove; you can't just squat in the middle of my house and stew.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Don't meddle in Politicks with your mouth full, dear," said the Vicereine gently.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.
~ Glen Raphael