Quotes About Obstacle

The humans build their stupid fence to keep us out, but that is nothing. The sky is our fence!" Human leapt upward—startlingly high, for his legs were powerful. "Look how the fence throws me back down to the ground!

The enemy's gate is down.

The next day he passed Alai in the corridor, and they greeted each other, touched hands, talked, but they both knew that there was a wall there now. It might be breached, that wall, sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.

The enemy's gate was down.

You consider everything impossible unless you want it, and then it already belongs to you, in which case anyone who stands in your way is a thief.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

The perfect metaphor, he said, looming up suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of your maiden voyage, unseen until it is nearly upon you, unavoidable even when you try to swerve, unexpected even though there have been warnings all along. [...]

We weren't even a halfway decent detectin' team. We hadn't solved the case. The case had been solved in spite of us. Worse, we had been such an impediment, we'd had to be packed off out of the way before the course of history could correct itself. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an elopement.

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

Sometimes hard problems don't have easy solutions.

The network interprets censorship as damage and routes around it

When you are lost or looking for someone suspected lost, the CROWDS of people form a threatening undertow undermining your every effort.

Keep going until something stops you, then keep going.

At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know... wall.

Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.

El camino propio de quien teme llegar a la meta traza fácilmente un laberinto

where a party of untrained English Territorials tried to hold them with a barricade of cardboard boxes.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

Even if it seems like an insurmountable obstacle, you can overcome these thoughts, and you can begin by noticing how they've been working to hold you back. Then you can embark on a deprogramming effort that allows you to live an excuse-free life, one day at a time, one miracle at a time, one new belief at a time!

The finish line comes into view and you will yourself toward it, but the wind pushes you back, and your body begs you to give up, and the whole world seems to grind into slow motion. Your determination is all that's left. It forces your muscles to fire. Forces you to stay in the race. Forces you to survive the pain of this moment.

The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.

Remember the street car cannot turn out.