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Quotes About Obstruction

When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life.
~ Jeanne Achterberg
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Sorry!" the She-dogs yelled from the other side. "We're closed!
~ Shelly Laurenston
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
~ Simon Newcomb
Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
~ Will Rogers
...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.
~ Shulamith Firestone
May 11, Trump admitted to Lester Holt of NBC News that he was determined to fire Comey "regardless" of the recommendation from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in order to stop the investigation of the "Russia thing." Trump isn't the first president to attempt to obstruct justice. But he is the first to admit what he was doing on national TV, and his admissions led to the appointment of former FBI director Robert S. Mueller as a special counsel.
~ Max Boot
the loss is transformative, in good ways and bad, a tangle of change that cannot be threaded into the usual narrative spools...It's not an emergence from the cocoon, but a tree growing around an obstruction.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Those who obstruct the Senate should pay a price in public notoriety and physical exhaustion. That would lead to a significant decline in frivolous filibusters.
~ Evan Bayh
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
~ Steven Pressfield
Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally, ethically, or spiritually.
~ Steven Pressfield
Resistance only obstructs movement from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts. It won't come in when you work with mother Teresa. It will give you a free pass. It is especially most powerful near the finish line.
~ Steven Pressfield
RESISTANCE ONLY OPPOSES IN ONE DIRECTION Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a higher station morally, ethically, or spiritually. So if you're in Calcutta working with the Mother Teresa Foundation and you're thinking of bolting to launch a career in telemarketing. . . relax. Resistance will give you a free pass.
~ Steven Pressfield
As has already been stated: some people's brains border their anal regions. Thus, their senses are dulled, and the psychopathological pestilence is such that the intrepid scholar-explorer inevitably butts up against a dead end.
~ Juan Filloy
There was just no helping some people, she acknowledged to herself sadly. In fact, she thought, with a spurt of resentment, some people could be just downright unreasonable.
~ Faith Martin
Es que estos cerdos del gobierno no son capaces de asfaltar una carretera tan esencial, que corta por en medio mi vida?
~ Fernando Vallejo
groups in America tried to spark a sense of urgency within government circles but kept running into a wall of indifference or outright hostility. While the U.S. State Department dithered, stalled, and did its best to avoid doing anything
~ Flint Whitlock
The devil's overriding goal is to block God's work— and if he can convince you God doesn't really love you, or that you can't fully trust Him, then he has blocked God's work in your life and achieved his goal.
~ Billy Graham
Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
~ BION
We do not discover the sun; we only recognise it when the clouds are blown and the rain has exhausted itself. So it is in morals—in the light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. We do not discover moral principles by a fingering induction, or in any other way; we merely remove obstructions; we can apply the bellows also and blow the small spark into a mighty flame.
~ blackie john stuart ii
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.
~ bovee christian nestell ii
You need to stop coming on our website and messing everything up!
~ Someone
Get out of the way of justice. She is blind.
~ Stanislaw J. Lec