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Quotes About Blockage

He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.
~ Charles Dickens
Chief Engineer Eban Abbott was about to dress for dinner when the engine room called. Assistant Engineer Antonio Bujia reported that one of the battery of fire boilers had a fuel blockage.
~ Gordon Thomas
At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know... wall.
~ D.J. MacHale
A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
~ Mal Peet
Something the size of a fist was in my throat and it was catching the words and not letting them out. I started to panic. Why couldn't I speak?
~ Helen Macdonald
Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Perhaps it is worse when love has flowed freely to find it one day dammed.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Il y a quelque chose de coincé dans le mécanisme
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
~ Junot Diaz
No, you can forget their going anywhere.
~ Tom Sharpe
Any experience can be made into a further blockage or can become a way of freeing ourselves.
~ Pema Chodron
Los países fracasan cuando tienen instituciones económicas extractivas, apoyadas por instituciones políticas extractivas que impiden e incluso bloquean el crecimiento económico.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
If things are not working out, they just stop going forward.
~ Mike Colter
that the two key factors converge. Assimilation, understood in the idiosyncratic sense above, ensured ongoing cultural vitality, allowing Jews to survive for millennia in a variety of settings beyond their homeland. Antisemitism, meanwhile, guaranteed that the path of Jews to full integration was frequently blocked. Unlikely as it may seem, these two forces have interacted, allowing Jews to persist, when many other groups faded.
~ David N. Myers
You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.
~ Zadie Smith
but that coldness stopped up the sentence in my mouth. "What
~ Zadie Smith
Perhaps we have been dependent too long on language and thought, and need to reawaken our inherent sense of the subtle vibration of Energy-Consciousness. All you have to do is unblock the blocked parts and awaken the sleeping parts of your being to access it.
~ Ilchi Lee
The story thread suddenly dropped in a hopeless snarl, just as he was about to get it through the needle's eye of the first line.
~ Cornell Woolrich
Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Do you know what hurts so much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when that happens. We can kill the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of use dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
There's such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But such admonishments did no good. He was still as blocked as a pipe full of concrete.
~ Dean Koontz
The lid, however, wouldn't shut. The mind held back the whole sky.
~ Denis Johnson