Quotes About Obstacle

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.

it is so unfair that he lives in ohio, because that should be close enough, but since neither of us drives and neither of us would ever in a million years say, 'hey, mom, do you want to drive me across indiana to see a boy?,' we're kind of stuck.

The thing about a trap is you get caught and can't get out. A maze has an exit. You just have to find it.

it's a truth of life that some things are not built so well and they become complicated and they need to be figured out and they're hard to figure out.

Anybody who tries to pass me will have a headache.

It is resistance that keeps the feeling going.

Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.

Charlie made an art of living. He understood, as great artists do, that every life is a mixture of comedy and tragedy, joy and sorrow, daring and fear. We choose the tenor of our lives from those clashing notes. Even when Charlie's strength was fading, when the golf course had become an obstacle course, when the infirmity of encroaching time could no longer be denied, he chose to turn his wedge into a walking stick and to carry it with panache.

My great ambition has always prevented me from doing anything.

15:4:4 The main purpose of learning and involvement in Torah study is to make yourself into a throne for the Divine Presence. When you are dirty with all kinds of sins and transgressions then the Shechinah can't come to rest on you because each and every sin is like a thorn that hurts Her. To remove this obstacle, confess your sins before you begin to learn Torah. (Kav ha-Yashar, chap. 53)

when all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow.

Getting anything out of my husband is like trying to squeeze water out when you're stoned.

That was the rock she was battered against.

Her voice began snagging on the prongs of her feelings.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

You only have a problem when you admit you have a problem.

I knew that I wanted to apply for a job in the Air Force, that I couldn't because it was a direct-combat, ground-combat role.

trouble. Ordinarily that would mean

It is not everyone that can get to Corinth.

Never forget the six-foot-tall man who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet deep on average.

There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.

You can always tell youre in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.