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Quotes About Obstruction

We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.
~ Lisa Murkowski
You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
~ Ric Keller
We all know how evolution works, except one industry that refuses to evolve: the entertainment industry. Instead of looking at evolution as something inevitable, the industry has made it their business to refuse and/or sue change, by any necessary means.
~ Peter Sunde
The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
Stand a little less between me and the sun.
~ Diogenes
Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course, you've got to push through it all if you're to write, and if you don't, or can't, you're sunk.
~ Claire Messud
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The one thing in the world of value is the active soul,—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates. In this action it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
nip most of them in the bud
~ Ray Bradbury
You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood.
~ Ray Bradbury
tres etapas: engaño, obstrucción y desempoderamiento.
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
Every day's delay on your part, therefore, seriously interferes with General Grant's plans," warned the crusty chief of staff.37
~ Wiley Sword
Most of what official adolescent psychology considers the "characteristics of puberty," turn out in character-analytic work to be the artificially produced effect of obstructed natural sexuality. This holds true for daydreaming as well as for inferiority feelings.
~ Wilhelm Reich
I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
~ James Dean
Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.
~ James R. Cook
Come off it, Mr. Dent," he said, "you can't win, you know. You can't lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely." He tried to make his eyes blaze fiercely but
~ Douglas Adams
He could only assume that he had just won. "So," continued Ford Prefect, "if you would just like to come over here and lie down …" "What?" said Mr. Prosser. "Ah, I'm sorry," said Ford, "perhaps I hadn't made myself fully clear. Somebody's got to lie in front of the bulldozers, haven't they? Or there won't be anything to stop them driving into Mr. Dent's house, will there?
~ Douglas Adams
But look, you found the notice, didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.
~ Douglas Adams
But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.
~ Douglas Adams
Hey. you' re blocking my paragraph. ~ the legends of zelda the minish cap
~ Akira Himekawa
Nope! Not now!" Taz agreed, letting them hurry him along.
~ Alan Gratz
When we come up upon a wall, it matters. We have to plan around it. It's a mitigating factor if you're trying to enter or cross from point A to point B.
~ Dan Crenshaw
Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is when senators anonymously block legislation or nominations without explanation.
~ Claire McCaskill
I tried to explain this to Nadine, but she kept interrupting me.
~ Rachel Kushner