It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard
You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!
Arthur Cohn
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Douglas Coupland
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
Ethel Waters
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler
Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
Bryant H. McGill
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Charles de Montesquieu