Quotes About Obstacle

I try to describe you to the river. I say you're a snag— Something the river can understand—catching my heart, That I'm rowing without oars, that this is some trip, Never able to leave you, bracing hard against swirls That confuse me, that the whole ghostly place seems like a trap Without bait, that nothing arrives anyplace near Where you and I once wanted to be. from "The Little Ghosts I Played with

It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.'-Jace 'Just break the door down, will you?'-Clary

If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises? -Clary, pg.239-

I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in - God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower of other needles." "Plunge your hand in a tower of needles," said Magnus, "and you are likely to cut yourself badly. Are you sure this is what you want?

That the wall is coming down.

Failure is built into that plan.

It's like life has given you this huge challenge to make sure that what was running in your family stops with you and doesn't go on any more than it has.

Horatio Lyle hit the floor, the floor hit him, and the floor came out the winner. It was in times like these, he told himself, when Newton's Second Law really made its point.

At the end of every adventure, you must ask if it was ever really your adventure at all. Perhaps you were only an obstacle in someone else's quest.

still not entirely amenable to having this conversation that would not stop having him.

It was not going Frankie's way. Talking to Zelda felt like talking to a radio. It talked back, but you couldn't call it a conversation.

"But" is a fence over which few leap.

As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

antagonist having one hand strapped behind his back and the other

I truly beleive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us.

Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.

The reason many fail to cut the tree is, they come with a knife.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Despite himself he scoffed—a staccato bark of saliva—at the very notion of ladders.

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

What if you stumble? Do what any choreographer would instruct you to do: Make it part of the dance.