Quotes About Obstacle

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

if there's not some sort of friction in a move forward, your step is not as consequential as you'd like to believe it is

In every journey, there comes a point, around three quarters of the way through, when the traveller, without a guide, can go no further. But not everyone finds a guide. Not everyone accepts a guide. Not everyone is convinced. Many would rather keep fumbling on their own, trying and trying again. They would rather risk not completing the journey, they would rather risk getting lost or content themselves with the advance already made, than follow in trust.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

In the vast majority of cases, however, getting into trouble has nothing to do with one's self-esteem. It usually has much more to do with whatever is causing the trouble - a monster, a bus driver, a banana peel, killer bees, the school principal - than what you think of yourself.

You might think that climbing a mountain is half the battle, only to find out that the mountain goats who live at the top are vicious, and heavily armed.

Every problem has a solution,' the doorman said. 'At least, that's what a close associate of mine says. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

Any age was a difficult age for someone needing to get through that window.

Every problem has a solution.... Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution even if it's right in front of your nose.

In the vast majority of cases, however, getting into trouble has nothing to do with one's self-esteem. It usually has much more to do with whatever is causing the trouble—a monster, a bus driver, a banana peel, killer bees, the school principal—than what you think of yourself.

out of my way cakesniffers

A lock isn't going to stop us. Not when we've come all this way.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution even it it's right in front of your nose.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies." ? Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

No es un problema.

Emergency Service panel trucks, holding rifles and black telescope-like Geiger counters. He was supposed to get by them?

The classic decision is always the same, whether to retreat or go on. There comes a time when it is easier to continue upward, when the summit, in fact, is the only way out. At such a moment one must still have strength.

It's forty kilometers through hell, sir," said the sergeant. Mitty finished one last brandy. "After all," he said softly, "what isn't?

There was a mist of moss to ride through and a storm of glass.

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Parecía mediar entre ambos un abismo invencible.