Quotes About Obstacle

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

I don't know if you've ever tried to run through waist-deep snow, but it's next to impossible.

The opulence of Bedford Square and the British Museum may be only a few hundred yards away, but New Oxford Street runs between there and here like a river too wide to swim, and you are on the wrong side.

i.mpossible.

The ostriches were like messengers who had learned their vital message by heart, but whose vocal chords had been slit by the enemy, so that when they finally reached their goal, all they could do was move their mouths.

El tiempo de la vida se convirtió para él en un simple obstáculo que hay que superar a velocidades cada vez mayores.

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.

You're the one thing I want the most in the world yet the one thing I cannot have. Because to have you completely would be impossible. You can't go where I walk.

J'ai toujours estimé qu'une bête sauvage n'est jamais aussi belle que quand un obstacle la sépare de nous - un obstacle bien solide, si possible.

I am a ghost to this man, I'm thinking. I am something unreal, something not quite tangible, yet still an obstacle of sorts and he nods, gets back on the phone, resumes speaking in a dialect totally alien to me.

We could have chopped down the sycamore with this...

If there is no solution, there is no problem.

When God wants to send you a gift, he wraps it up in a problem. The bigger the gift that God wants to send you, the bigger the problem he wraps it up in.

Decision. You must make a decision this very day, this very moment, that you are going to do whatever it takes and overcome any obstacle to become excellent.

Llegue hasta la pared de enfrente de la vida. Y me parece que he tenido siempre a la mano esta pared.

From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was. An obstacle was there that changed the pattern of my actions and the manner of my life. An obstacle was often there to stop me when I'd begin to speak. From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing— from these alone will I be understood.

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

for it, but the sonofabitch couldn't

It never ends, really, does it? You overcome one obstacle, one evil, one enemy, and another steps into the unoccupied space. We persevere, but it isn't ever really over for us. Not even for those who don't want any part of it.

The Great Wall of China resembles the concept of heartache in that neither can peel a banana.

War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death.

You don't have to get wet to cross a river.

Nothing is ever easy.