Interfere Quotes - Page 18

• What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Self, Fool, Has Beens

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.168, Dial Press

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• Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?

  Katrina Kenison

  Gratitude, Children, Growing Up

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• Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.

  Thomas Szasz

  Suicide, Suicidal, Mean

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• If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.

  Brian Clough

  Player, Play, Ifs

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• I have always thought and I still think that the Central Bank should act independently. Indeed, it does, you can take my word. I do not interfere in the decisions of the Central Bank and I do not give instructions to the Bank management or to its head.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Giving, Decision

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I believe that the G20 should not interfere [foreign policy], because there are other platforms for that.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Should, Platforms

  Source: thesaker.is

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• The Central Bank has a lot to handle and it is best not to interfere with its competence.

  Vladimir Putin

  Competence, Handle, Central Banks

  Source: thesaker.is

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• One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

  Saul Bellow

  Ideas, People, Mad

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Teaching, Knowledge, Men

  "Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey". Book by Andrew Mango, 1999.

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• When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Artist, Way

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.22, Convergent Books

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• I will not interfere with the courts at all. For now,[William] Ruto is a political necessity, but you know in politics we do have blind loyalties and if we are to win this battle, we have to use all options available.

  Raila Odinga

  Loyalty, Winning, Political

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• When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Thinking, Winning

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of the guy next door, you're a criminal, and you ought to be punished for that especially if you're in a position where your actions could affect large numbers of people. Being a doctor, a legislator, a judge, an airline pilot, where somebody's life depends on you.

  Frank Zappa

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Numbers, Doctors

  Source: afka.net

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• I did not come all this way not to interfere

  Rupert Murdoch

  Way

  "Revenge of the tabloids" by Andy Beckett, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2016.

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• Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man's interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves Him to interfere in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the devil in his schemes to ruin man. Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Moving, Angel

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• ..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Believe, Practice, People

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• In Turkey also, for a long time, the military was the decisive force but in the past 10 years they have backed off somewhat and the civilian government has gained more independence and autonomy even to shake up the military command. In fact, it even arrested several high-ranking officers [for interfering in governmental affairs]. Maybe Pakistan can move in a similar direction.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Moving, Past

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• I don't want to interfere with my successor's presidency.

  George W. Bush

  Want, Presidency, Successors

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It starts at 2:30 in the morning and often doesn't end until midnight, so if you can actually find a moment to have a drink or a smoke, you're quite welcome to, as long as it doesn't interfere with your capacity to follow the schedule.

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Long, Midnight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Straits Times, April 20, 1987.

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• If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

  Patricia Briggs

  Book, Needs, Benefits

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• We cannot let those who would try to destabilize the world to interfere with American interests and security.

  Hillary Clinton

  Trying, World, Interest

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• There is a certain increase in the importance I assign to women in getting us out of the mess that we are in, which is a reflection of the role of women in my traditional culture - that they do not interfere in politics until men really make such a mess that the society is unable to go backward or forward. Then women will move in.

  Chinua Achebe

  Moving, Reflection, Men

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• I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

  Rob Lowe

  People, Living My Life

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

  Tariq Ali

  Mean, Wish, United States

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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