#prevented

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country. ↗

— Ang Lee

#bad #bad guys #china #communist #country

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#action #been #few #foolish #many

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#dizzy #heights #i #illness #like

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#animal #before #body #company #connections

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

#fail #guilt #just #must #prevent

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds. ↗

— William Bligh

#bay #endeavouring #get #into #prevented

The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#balanced #breeding #divergence #flow #immigration

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

#being #believe #conquered #happy #heart

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

#been #best #could #enough #everywhere

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#bestseller #could #good #good teacher #many