Quotes About Obstacles

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.

Contrary to popular belief, there are peaks higher than Mount Everest. These are the hurdles that lie within each of us. Thank you Stephen Hawking for showing us that they are not insurmountable

Avery slides on his glasses and opens his eyes again. "Dammit!" he says again with more feeling. "Why does stuff like this keep happening?""You say that as if it's a bad thing, " Rob says, smirking.

They don't want you to jet ski, they don't want you to smile.

Wenn ein Mann zurueckweicht, weicht er zurueck. Eine Frau weicht nur zurueck, um besser Anlauf nehmen zu koennen.

Um aspecto muito visível do desaparecimento das velhas garantias é a nova fragilidade dos laços humanos. A fragilidade e transitoriedade dos laços pode ser um preço inevitável do direito de os indivíduos perseguirem seus objetivos individuais, mas não pode deixar de ser, simultaneamente, um obstáculo dos mais formidáveis para perseguir eficazmente esses objetivos -- e para a coragem necessária para persegui-los.

It makes for a complicated relationship, but what's life without a few well-chosen complications? Dull, that's what.

The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path.

You can either do what your integrity tells you to do, or niftily find your way around the obstacles life throws in your path.

Jay lurched in one direction, jerked back, lurched in another, tripped for no reason. He finally made it through a gauntlet of invisible obstacles and crouched behind a water fountain shaped like a hippopotamous throwing up.

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

Brown is the definitive example of the fate of civil rights policies that were sought with too little regard for either the variables of racial fortuity or the tremendous obstacles those we hoped to help were actually facing in their lives.

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam.

But somethings are just too important to let fear stand in the way.

Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit.

Only later did we discover that our planned drop zone had been strongly covered by the enemy with rifle pits and automatic weapons all around its perimeter. Had the drop taken place as planned, it was quite possible "that the greater breadth of the target would have given the waiting Germans a greatly enhanced opportunity for killing." Planned or not, Easy Company was scattered across a wide dispersal area several miles west of our objective. How the remainder of the

But when we create our own God and our own world, what we are really doing is to deify our own lust. We are then bound to hate our fellow-men, as obstacles standing in the way of our wills.