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Quotes About Obstruction

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.
~ George W. Bush, Speech (2005)
Once you eliminate your number one problem, number two gets a promotion.
~ Gerald M. Weinberg
God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.
~ Arturo Toscanini
Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.
~ Philander Johnson
traffic was as mean as a constipated lion
~ J.D. Robb
I'm not cock-blocking for kicks and giggles. The mothership called
~ J.R. Ward
I'm not cock-blocking for kicks and giggles. The mother ship called.
~ J.R. Ward
I'm stuck in the fucking chimney." She
~ J.R. Ward
We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.
~ H. G. Wells
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
~ Charles E. Sorensen
Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
~ Wilfred Bion
He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork.
~ Tana French
Special counsel Robert Mueller, investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, provided ample evidence that the president should be investigated for obstruction of justice in his attempt to quell the Russia investigation by firing Comey and urging aides to lie.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
~ Howard Hodgkin
(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.
~ Jimmy Carter
The underlying cause of most unfulfilled lives is that we are simply too close to ourselves to see clearly enough to get out of our own way.
~ Neil Strauss
I checked my speed, but I was only doing ten mph over the limit, which in Georgia means you're obstructing the flow of traffic.
~ Nelson DeMille
Obtuseness was its own defense
~ Trevanian
Congress is balking; in fact, they have got to the point where they won't do anything if they think it's what I want.
~ Upton Sinclair
Dinah and I were raised to believe money taints ordinary people, obstructs virtue, and makes a fool out of you. So, the inheritance was like a tiger somebody'd left on the doorstep of my house, and I had to figure out something to do with it. Having never seen a tiger up close, I perceived it as strange, frightful, and yet it pricked my curiosity enough to warrant a peek at its big body. But what to do with it?
~ Vicki Covington
Por qué aquella desmesurada carreta ocupaba aquel sitio en la calle? Lo primero para obstruirla, y lo segundo para que se acabara de enmohecer. En el viejo orden social hay también una porción de instituciones que ocupan del mismo modo la vía pública, y que tampoco tienen otras razones para estar en ella.
~ Victor Hugo
Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the above.
~ Victor Hugo
I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs instead of wasting my time learning other peoples music too much. It may act as an obstruction in developing your very own personal style.
~ Kurt Cobain
You ain't no woodstove; you can't just squat in the middle of my house and stew.
~ Catherynne M. Valente