Intervening Quotes

• Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

  William Ames

  Church, Today, Helping

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.

  Joseph Sobran

  Funny, Government, Political

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• Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad.

  Ron Paul

  Suicide, Terrorism

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• Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.

  Dane Cook

  Differences, Making A Difference, Want

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 04, 2014

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• Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Moving

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.58, OUP Oxford

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• We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

  William J. Brennan

  Mean, Looks, Ultimate Questions

  "The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification" (speech),Washington, D.C., 12 Oct. 1985

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• Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Change, Death

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• Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.

  Nikola Tesla

  Distance, Sight, Perception

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

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• People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block the sensible collaboration between two NHS hospitals. They can no longer deny it, it’s absolutely clear.

  Andy Burnham

  Block, Two, Nhs

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• Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Destiny, Arbitrary, Existential

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.99, Open Road Media

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• As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wish, Guarantees, Our Society

  "Michigan's ban on affirmative action upheld by Supreme Court" By Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2014.

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• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Distance, Eye, Interesting

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Drawing, Interesting

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty

  Frederic Bastiat

  Exercise, Understanding, Liberty

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• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Years, Rely Upon

  The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931) ch. 2

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• Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Laughter, Flower

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• There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reflection, Echoes, Doors

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.39, Pottermore

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• Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

  Douglas Adams

  People, Watches, Want

  Douglas Adams (1985). “The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts”, Random House Value Publishing

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• You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Trying, Fudge

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• Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?

  Roger Zelazny

  Past, Years, Routine

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• For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, History

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction.

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Addiction, Looks

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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• For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clouds, Evil, Shadow

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• Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.

  Michael Chabon

  Moving, Views, Goal

  "The Yiddish Policemen's Union". Book by Michael Chabon, 2007.

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