Quotes About Obstruction

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

It is not that science is failing us. It is simply that the solution is as complex and multifaceted as the illness itself. For every theory of its causes, there is another to contradict it; for every new treatment, there is another that dismisses it as ineffective. This is not deliberate obstruction. Depressive illness, as well as being complex, is highly individual. What works for one person does not work for another. And often there is no explanation why this is so.

we'd had to walk alongside construction tape that kept us out

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

a system is working when an attempt to transform that system is blocked.

So many people, Julie thought, stuck in their cars, stuck in their lives, just waiting for someone else to get out of their way.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

There was no real animosity in his voice or his mind. It was the simple desire to obstruct found in everyone, and often expressed where there is no fear of retaliation.

We tend to make the thing in the way the way.

love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our rise; in loyalty to our kind, we cannot tolerate their obstruction. They are the crown of creation, they are ambition fulfilled — they have nowhere more to go. But life is change, that is how it differs from the rocks, change is its very nature

God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.

The heavy curtain of Bureaucracy was drawn between the right thing to be done and the right man to do it.

We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

Democrats, for their part, have chosen to go the way of reckless obstruction, pursuing the first partisan impeachment in history.

It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.

My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me appears through a kind of curtain, a haze.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

The supreme torture was to come. He discovered that it required the united energies of the three men to coax him into his coat. When at last it was on he assured them it would split across the shoulders if her so much as moved a finger. Forget it, little fool! Forget it? cried Philip. How can I forget it when it prevents my moving?