Quotes About Obstruction

Stops at the end of the road collected Clyde Lidgards like dams collected silt.

They were the stumbling blocks, not MacArthur.

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

We used to be a nation that celebrated people who got things done. Now we celebrate people who stop things getting done.

It was a sign of decaying culture, of course, that dams had been built against the further development of ideas.

if you wish to call the truth impossible, that is your privilege, but it will get you nowhere.

Man is his own worst enemy.

As a defender I try to keep clean sheets.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

The library is a magnificent institution which nothing can hinder . . . except peanut politics

Sometimes I help him out and sometimes he helps me out, and sometimes he tries to push me through the wall. (Dark City Lights)

It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him onward, and that a supernatural power had obstructed his retreat.

Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.

A bureaucrat who said no to everything rarely got in trouble.

Although we kept the door ajar so that we could hear, we could not see beyond the gentlemen standing in front of the door in the crowded room. I felt trapped behind a wall of men that separated me from the main event.

Diriger, selon Murdo, c'est faciliter le cours de la vie, pas lui faire barrage.

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

In the middle of the road there was a stonethere was a stone in the middle of the roadthere was a stonein the middle of the road there was a stone.

The brutally relentless tactics of stall and defy, then stall and undermine—tactics that went on for at least four decades—left the United States with millions of citizens who lacked the education needed to be competitive in a global, technology-driven economy.

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A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon — it won't work and you can't fire it.

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.