Quotes of: Preventing Keyword

His self-righteousness has prevented him from enjoying the grace all around him.

The Big Story: How the Bible Makes Sense out of Life

Embrace your enemy,” the elders urged, “to prevent him striking you.” (“Embrace your enemy,” Henry quipped, “to feel his dagger tickle your kidneys.”)

Cloud Atlas

It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to ...

Thich Nhat Hanh

I believe we have this idea that bad things ought to be prevented from happening.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.

The Author's Blueprint

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?

Anatomy of a Boyfriend

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to from falling in love?

Anatomy of a Boyfriend

If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.

The Idiot

You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.

Not That Kind of Girl

Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Think about what you sell in terms of how it eases or prevents pain for your client.

Lemonade Stand Selling: Accelerate Your Small Business Growth

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

Picture Perfect

In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoid and prevent wars. I'd propose to have a separate planet where we'd insert fighting coutries to solve their business.

Pavilion of Thoughts

In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoir and prevent wars. I'd propose to have a separate planet where we'd insert fighting coutries to solve their business.

Pavilion of Thoughts

And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.

TransAtlantic

Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective

There are times when you have to commit a crime to prevent an even bigger one. At least, that’s what I tell myself when I can’t sleep at night.

World Enough and Crime

Some people have to leave your life because their very presence prevents, perverts & distorts your purpose. Don't be afraid to let go.

Yesterday Mourning

Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possi...

Dave Obey

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluo...

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.