Quotes About Obstacle

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The fascination of sleep, which pits the lure of the void against the obstinacy of an impotent will, is an obstacle that life has perhaps never surmounted.

The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, what is stated is nothing, if not a means and even, as much as a means, an obstacle; what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.

Arrivava solido come il granito, e da quel momento pareva che tutto dovesse spezzarsi contro di lui, sia che avanzasse, sia che restasse piantato sulle gambe leggermente divaricate.

Tell me,is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony?

Which was the best I could do, sir, seeing as the motorboat was no use and I'd got to get across the creek somehow. I won't repeat what that Peabody said, because it doesn't bear repeating, but... I said, interrupted a voice with relish, I said I 'adn't been 'ired to row an 'ippo across the creek, and no more I 'ad.

away from Damerel's advance it was seen that he was dead lame.

The sense of struggling through the thickets of a nightmare again swept over her. There was a way out, so her heart's voice cried to her, and could she find it she would find also Damerel, her dear friend. But time was slipping away; in another minute it would be too late; and urgency acted not as a spur but as a creeping paralysis which clogged the mind, and weighted the tongue, and imposed on desperation a blanket of numb stupidity.

you had as well go rabbit-hunting with a dead ferret as try to get past his butler!

It wasn't in the cards to work out in football.

For years, I swore I couldn't work out because my own sweat gave me a rash.

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

I always saw hurdles as a form of art, because it's very individual. One technique that may produce a world record for one guy could be useless for another guy.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled.

Time and time again, small businesses testify before the Committee on Small Business that they simply want the government to 'get out of the way.'

'The Wall' is a reaction to 'Edge of Tomorrow,' where I was like, 'I don't need time travel and aliens to take a hero and pin them down in an impossible situation. I can do it in a much simpler way.' And that was 'The Wall.'

You step in a divot or a hole you're not expecting to be there, and it can throw off your timing or your approach.

It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.

I'll flip a stupid tire. But I ain't running.

The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.

Winning the title is an important detail to the story, but how you get there is much more important.