Intervening Quotes - Page 3

• The minute Mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in Syria, I went to see him. And I said, "Look, here's what I'm doing. I'm not intervening in Syria. But at the same time, if Syria tries to intervene with us, if Iran tries to use Syria to attack us, we'll stop it.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Military, Iran, Trying

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

  Theresa May

  Country, America, World

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• A number of Iraqis told us they had welcomed the U.S. forces as liberators initially but in the intervening months, they had come to feel that they had swapped one oppressive regime for another. The Iraqis did exchange one oppression for a lighter kind, in some ways.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Numbers, Way, Months

  Source: progressive.org

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• [Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Information, Influence

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• I think everybody should have the choice [with drugs] the same as helmets. You should be able to say whether you want to wear one or not. By making drugs illegal, the government is intervening into our lives a little too much.

  Sonny Barger

  Thinking, Government, Should Have

  Source: pdr.autono.net

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• To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

  Nick Nolte

  Xanax, Cutting, Survival

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• I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

  Mike Todd, Jr.

  Squares, Digging, Spirals

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• Militarism is the most energy-intensive, entropic activity of humans, since it converts stored energy and materials directly into waste and destruction without any useful intervening fulfillment of basic human needs. Ironically, the net effect of military, as opposed to civilian, expenditures is to increase unemployment and inflation.

  Hazel Henderson

  Military, Energy, Needs

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• No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Sea, Forever

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

  Stella Benson

  Dream, Air, California

  Stella Benson (1922). “The Poor Man”

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• No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.

  Kevin Rudd

  Past, Government, Support

  "ALP in 'me-too' policy mess over death penalty" by Tony Wright, www.theage.com.au. October 10, 2007.

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• The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Men, Landscape, Scene

  "The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson" by Daniel J. Boorstin, University of Chicago Press, (p. 6), 1993.

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• Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, Danger, States

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. IX), 1916.

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• Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan.

  Judith Regan

  Eye, Years, Editors

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• Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

  Tom Hoover

  Reality, Experience, Analysis

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• My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.

  Radka Donnell

  Art, Quilts, Silence

  Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns

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• My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

  Edith Wharton

  Writing, Pages, Way

  Edith Wharton (2013). “A Backward Glance”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Everything lives and perishes through magnetism; one thing affects another one, even at great distances, and its "congenitals" may be influenced to health and disease by the power of this sympathy, at any time, and notwithstanding the intervening space.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Distance, Space, May

  H. P. Blavatsky (1994). “Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)”, p.207, Quest Books

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• The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Cities, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.181, Graphic Arts Books

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• We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Light, Space

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.133, e-artnow

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• government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

  Camille Paglia

  Government, Behavior

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• I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.

  Robert Reich

  Mean, Obscurity, Gone

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• A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Military, War

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• We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. 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. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.

  William J. Brennan

  Mean, Justice, Principles

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

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• For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

  Nick Bostrom

  People, Healthy, Adults

  "The ideas interview: Nick Bostrom" by John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. May 09, 2006.

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