Quotes of: Deterred Keyword

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

Constance Baker Motley

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

Joseph Rotblat

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

Loni Anderson

Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.

Bill Dedman

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

Martin Van Creveld

It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.

Otto Schily

I wanted to write about Jews in Montana, so I went there by plane and bus, only to discover that there are no Jews in Montana. It didn't deter me.

Kevin Barry

All great men face challenges in the pursuit of their goals. However, the challenges did not deter them for pushing forward and realizing their goals.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have t...

Steven Pinker

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

Bob Filner

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.

Mark Pocan

There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you.

Raymond Bonner

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.

Dr. Sherwin Nuland

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

Dawn Fraser

Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

Fergus Henderson

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.

Charles Horner

As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.

Emraan Hashmi

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

Carrie P. Meek

Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.

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