Quotes About Obstacle

In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

The hole I've dug for myself is very big.

As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

If you get hung up on the history of a part then you're on a hiding to nothing.

It's probably why I was so hateful to her, she kept me from what I wanted the most.

Another thing about the new and improved Coco Nerd: it's unparkable. Those external tailpipes make it as wide as a ferryboat. But I finally get it jammed in between Emma's Prius and the pickup truck belonging to the Elias farm. The door opens and I have about four inches of clearance to squeeze myself through.

Jonah shook his head, clucking in false sympathy. "Told you guys — no way out." They

If it wasn't for Randy, I never would have taken the bike ride that turned into my first run-in with Serenity's invisible barrier. That was a horrible experience, but I'm grateful for it now. Without it, I might never have stumbled on the truth about Project Osiris. We could all still be lab rats in the experiment.

Dan was in store for a ride bumpier than any game of Quidditch could ever be.

path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.

ceiling, then

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it's artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.

When I broke my leg in college my first year, they were worried that I wouldn't walk straight again. In fact, I'm pretty pigeon-toed, and most people think I don't walk straight anyway.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

In Tom Cone's work nothing is easy.

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

I never took the easy route.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

But when you meet with the enemy and genuinely try to understand his or her perspective, you lose the enemy as a political tool. And that's the eternal obstacle.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

The fact is if you're less than six feet tall, you can pretty much forget about your dreams to challenge King James in his court.