A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
Norman Reilly Raine

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.
James Payn

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
Richard Stallman

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.
Jeremy Rifkin

Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.
Joe Rogan

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson Mizner

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler

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

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
Stephen Hopkins

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.
Jasper Johns

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
Ethel Waters

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.
Ed Pastor

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

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

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Doug Coupland