Quotes About Barrier

For someone who doesn't have the key, the door becomes a wall; for someone who has the key, there is no door!

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

He smiled at the sudden image of Prometheus tossing cars from one side of the bridge to the other to build his barrier. He heard the tiny tinkle of glass and wondered if being tossed across the Golden Gate Bridge by an Elder was covered by insurance.

A major catastrophe that frustrates a central goal of life will either destroy the self, forcing a person to use all his psychic energy to erect a barrier around remaining goals, defending them against further onslaughts of fate; or it will provide a new, more clear, and more urgent goal: to overcome the challenges created by the defeat.

Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)

put up an inner barrier that allowed him to not seem to experience the feelings his partner's putdowns must have been stimulating in him.

I hurtled myself against it before realizing I had to press down the latch.

angst is het enige dat tussen de mens en de vrijheid staat

Je gardais le silence ou grognais n'importe quoi ; – les mots ne me sortaient plus. Forcément, mon gosier n'était plus apte à former des sons mais exclusivement des pierres. Elles me harcelaient toutes cependant, comme elles harcelaient les autres hommes, ne sachant pas à quoi elles s'exposaient : j'étais prêt à vomir un torrent de pierres. »

There is a tendency in all of us to want to see schizophrenia...as somehow separate from ourselves. There is a certain comfort...in building a barrier that says 'schizophrenia' on one side and 'normal' on the other. The 'normals' often benevolently minister to the 'schizophrenic' ones and, in this effort to be helpful, often firm up the barrier, further isolating the schizophrenic person and family. This barrier is of our own making, not nature's act.

At first we are all strangers, until you decide to approach. Only effective communication can break this barrier and build the bridge of friendship.

Sometimes your age, too young or too old, can be the barrier to your lack of understanding of some deeper concepts.

As youth flowers into maturity, the barrier between nerd and herd grows taller and thicker and begins to sprout thorns.

the idea of the black inferiority complex and castigated what he called the worship and idolization of the West and their ideas. The inferiority complex, he affirmed, was the greatest barrier to liberation

At the level of their biochemistry, the barrier between bacteria and complex cells barely exists.

Nathan's thoughts were a giant, angry sea tap-tap-tapping on a small dyke wall.

Neither a declaration of human rights, nor the proclamation of a constitution, nor an appeal to natural law, protects against the arbitrary power of the state. The only barrier to despotism is customary law.

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Mówi? do kogo?, kto nie rozumie, to próbowa? otworzy? zamek ?d?b?em trawy, to kroi? chleb ga??zk? bazylii, wkr?ca? ?arówk? w ptasie gniazdo, wk?ada? dyskietk? mi?dzy dwa kamienie.

Ten, kto nie nauczy? si? mówi?, zostanie na zawsze uwi?ziony w pu?apce.

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

I spent my youth building this wall to keep dangerous things away. I sometimes wonder now if I've kept them inside.