#prevent

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#any #before #being #big #could

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#life #most #oneself #prevent #prolonged

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America. ↗

— George Allen

#america #attacks #continue #done #few

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#know #learning #often #prevents #us

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#lacks #never #power #prevent #should

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#future #i #prevent #try

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#compassion #final #misery #prevent #relieve

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#becoming #best #intended #men #prevent

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#badly #cannot #dishonest #doing #done