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«Time is what prevents everything from happening at once»
«The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.»
Author: Russell Green
| About:
Education,
Wealth
| Keywords:
achieving, classical, Classical education, enables, prevents, the Classical
«The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin»
Author: Salvador De Madariaga
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
Anglo-Saxon, Anglo, enjoying, prevents, Saxon, sinning
«The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.»
«The severity of the laws prevents their execution.»
«True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Realism
| Keywords:
covered, prevents, realism, revealing, surprising
«There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
egotism, exploiting, First to, invert, inverted, prevents, reasonable, Reasonable man, reticence, reticences
«There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so»
«The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| Keywords:
actual, attends, doctor, doctored, Doctor Who, impending, inferior, mediocre, prevents, sickness, sicknesses, superior, The Sickness, treats
«The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace»
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