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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
Preparedness never caused a war and unpreparedness never prevented one.
— Florence Prag Kahn
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.
— Sheila Jeffreys
He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He'd made the world a little better, or at least, prevented it from getting worse. That was his purpose. That was his point. Someone
— Victoria Schwab
I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows whether one of these days I shall not be prevented from doing it?
— Alexei Nikolaevich
It is a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of its princes,
— Matthew Henry
I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.
— William Hogarth
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
— Pietro Aretino
Strat yearned to imagine her without even the thin white dress, but it would not be honorable, so he prevented himself from having such a fantasy.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
— Rene Magritte
She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.
— Richard J. O'Brien
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
— Bertolt Brecht
I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.
— Woody Allen
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
— Anthony Daniels
I had gotten the role of Fandral in Thor, but scheduling conflicts (with Chuck) prevented that from going forward.
— Zachary Levi
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
— George Bernard Shaw
The pain of losing someone is always worse when you know you could have prevented it.
— Renee Carlino
How about you keep the tens of millions you nearly prevented me from earning for you last year and we call it even?
— Michael Lewis
The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.
— Edward Irving
It's only when life is broken and shattered into tiny pieces when you understand that love prevented you from falling apart.
— P.J. Bayliss
Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.
— Errico Malatesta
From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.
— Rick Perry
What happens is never unpredictable: there are always breaches, carelessness, incompetence, omissions, which have not prevented the occurrence.
— Zygmunt Bauman
There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
— Michael Bloomberg
The same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes.
— Henry David Thoreau
At the end of the day, when we measure our healthcare, it will not be by the diseases cured, but by the diseases prevented.
— Rebecca Onie
90 percent of people's problems could be prevented if they'd choose healthier people to give their hearts to.
— Donald Miller
I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.
— Matt McGorry
We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.
— James Martineau
You have enemies enough without tearing open your own wounds over things you could not have prevented.
— Jim Butcher
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
and dangerous depths of the labyrinth that was her depression. It had prevented her from slipping
— Gilly Macmillan
He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
— Henry Fielding
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it. — J.K. Rowling
Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).
— Donna Jo Napoli
John could have prevented all of this from happening, but instead chose to educate us through the obscenity of proof.
— David Price
The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.
— Benjamin Franklin
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
— Saint Ignatius
Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong.
— Arthur James Balfour
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
— Theodor Adorno
All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
— William Bligh
Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.
— Megan Whalen Turner
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.
— Frank Herbert
I don't think my style of play is what has prevented me from winning major championships. I think that execution has been more of a factor.
— Phil Mickelson
It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.
— Muhammad Al-Bukhari
All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.
— Swami Vivekananda
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
— Scilla Elworthy
Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have ... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.
— Thomas Eisner
Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
— Eddie Barclay
A Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love was long over, but what was lost to him he still loved so harshly that it prevented him from listening even to its trace.
— Richard Powers
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
— Omar N. Bradley
He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.
— Nikolai Gogol
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
— Cesare Beccaria
You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.
— Ozzy Osbourne
There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.
— Joseph Rotblat
I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding
— Theodore Roosevelt
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
— George Henry Lewes
I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.
— Rudyard Kipling
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
— Sue Townsend
Is there something bad that could have been prevented if someone'd been watching over you?
— John Jackson Miller
Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.
— Christopher Pike
The rules and limitations that once prevented accidents now prevented creativity.
— Stanley McChrystal
All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.
— Albert Pierrepoint
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Christine always wanted to know what was afoot, and any matter on which she was prevented from giving her opinion she took to be going badly.
— Jeremias Gotthelf
Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.
— Carly Fiorina
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.
— Robert Breault
The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.
— Joan M. Drury
Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.
— Christopher Monckton
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
— Margaret Sanger
The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.
— Klemens Von Metternich
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
