Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Back in 1983 the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful' we will say 'If government spending prevents pain why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain just stay on the track we are on.'