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Quotes About Interference

Stop! If you must make excuses, Basil, I must ask no questions. You have a secret which you wish to keep from me; and I beg you will keep it. I have never been accustomed to treat my sons as I would not treat any other gentlemen with whom I may happen to be associated. If they have private affairs, I cannot interfere with those affairs. My trust in their honour is my only guarantee against their deceiving me; but in the intercourse of gentlemen that is guarantee enough.
~ Wilkie Collins
where the two cities are close up they make for interference patterns, harder to read or predict. They are more than a city and a city; that is elementary urban arithmetic.
~ China Mieville
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.
~ Chinua Achebe
Searching interfered with the ability to find.
~ Chris Offutt
It's really none of your business...
~ Christina Baker Kline
Fire is the most tolerable third party.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The Westphalian peace reflected a practical accommodation to reality, not a unique moral insight. It relied on a system of independent states refraining from interference in each other's domestic affairs and checking each other's ambitions through a general equilibrium of power.
~ Henry Kissinger
One cannot keep on evangelizing the world without interfering with the world's culture. It devolves upon God's people, therefore, to contend for such a society which will give the maximum opportunity for us to live wholly Christian lives and the maximum opportunity for others to become Christians.
~ Henry R. Van Til
Their daughter came in in full evening dress, her fresh young flesh exposed (making a show of that very flesh which in his own case caused so much suffering), strong, healthy, evidently in love, and impatient with illness, suffering, and death, because they interfered with her happiness. Fyodor
~ Leo Tolstoy
Prince Hippolyte, under pretense of helping, was in everyone's way.
~ Leo Tolstoy
A single photon seems to "know" if there are two slits open or only one slit open and it behaves differently accordingly!
~ Leon M. Lederman
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a good deal faster than it does.
~ Lewis Carroll
It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again.
~ Sydney Pollack
Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved up some countries and created others. When some of the world we had made by force wanted something in return, we were outraged.
~ Jeanette Winterson
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will always be threatened as long as Russia interferes in your affairs.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Intellectual is someone who meddles in what does not concern him.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.
~ Frederick Lenz
Nonphysical beings are drawn to enlightened beings. Some come to aid them in there work; some come to interfere. Some just come to watch. Enlightenment is rare in this world.
~ Frederick Lenz
The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
~ George Eliot
I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.
~ Jack Kirby
Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts.
~ Jeremy Grantham
I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
~ Maggie Hassan
Apparently, all foreign media organisations have to follow an approved script of acceptable coverage, lest they are accused of interference. And make no mistake: we're not talking about neutrality. The only acceptable approach was, 'Support Clinton, attack Trump'.
~ Margarita Simonyan