Prevented Quotes

See also Prevent Quotes

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

- Rob Lowe

(Responding to fans, skeptical of his plan to direct an opera) I have no idea what I am doing. But incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

- Woody Allen

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

- Conrad Veidt

People go through a bad event like that, and they want to feel it was something it couldn`t be prevented. In a lot of cases, it can be prevented.

- Mark Powell

These can only be prevented with inhaled steroids. Nothing else has been shown to be as effective.

- Robert Nathan

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.

- Julie Bishop

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

- Condoleezza Rice

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

- Pope John Paul II

The key here is that we want to make sure students aren`t prevented from applying or choose not to apply because of a sense they don`t have the ability to pay. We want them to apply, and we`ll meet their costs.

- Richard Shaw

Oil pollution causes a lot of problems in the oceans. And most of it (oil pollution) can be prevented.

- Bryan Jones

If we can get a gun or two or three off the streets, in terms of human misery prevented, the gains are immeasurable,

- Michael Bryant

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

- Italo Calvino

We were having difficulty recruiting qualified police officers, and we felt this policy may have prevented some good candidates from applying.

- Rebecca Jones

Everywhere I go I`m asked if I think the university stifles 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 war in Iraq has not prevented the growth of terrorism. We are learning now that it has actually enhanced the growth of terrorism.

- Aiko Uemura

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

- Alan Herbert

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

- Alan Norquist

We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

- Albert Alschuler

I needed to explain that Louisiana`s coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

- Alicia Munnell

The PATRIOT Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

- Allan Meltzer

Then, we were told that a world war was prevented by the existence of nuclear weapons. Now, we are told that nuclear weapons prevent all kinds of war.

- Allan Walsh

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

- Allan Walsh

Freedom is a man`s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

- Alvina Tan

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

- Amarri Jackson

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

- Amitabh Mattoo

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

- Andre Godin

It is estimated that half of all sports-related injuries among children can be prevented. Protective equipment, safe playing conditions and the development and enforcement of safety rules help reduce the number and severity of sports injuries.

- Ann Hart

Things have gotten a lot better. Earlier this year -- in February, right after the Hope -- I found out I would basically stand up and arch my back at the top of the swing. It prevented me from playing well, and was also giving me back problems. I was basically hurting myself with every swing. And I was making huge compensations. I had to take two months off, and it took months after that to get to playing well again.

- Anne Grant

They would have been rendered helpless from the smoke, ... We are plagued by the loss of life that possibly -- possibly -- could have been prevented.

- Baldomero Vázquez

an atmosphere of racial tension in the jury room prevented meaningful deliberations from taking place.

- Barbara Levin