Quotes About Obstruction

Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

She's like a stoplight in the middle of my life and there's just no avoiding her.

When textbooks make racism invisible in American history, they obstruct our already poor ability to see it in the present.

And it occurred to Josie how tortured Michael must have been by the way his mother's gift just flowed out of her, so clear and certain and unobstructed, like a spring. How painful it must have been for him to watch this. Michael had that genius, maybe even more than Meredith, but couldn't let it out like that. Just pour it out. And no matter how good he was, even if he was the one picked out of a whole show, he could never feel it. He could do everything except find a way to satisfaction.

Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction that, despite renewed interest on every continent, it is unlikely another will be built in the United States.

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.

The untold secret driving the obstruction to Obama's economic equality agenda is this: The opposition isn't really battling Big Government. The opposition is protecting an economic system that's putting more and more of the earned income out of reach for those aspiring to better themselves.

My court fight is clearly an uphill battle. The Department of Justice has unlimited tax dollars to spend obstructing and fighting my case, which is now in its fourth year.

If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water.

That which hinders your task is your task.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.

I had cartilage sticking out my nose. I couldn't breathe out of my left nostril.

It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Either you're in, or you're in the way." Often, we chase after people who aren't "in," who, for whatever reason, don't fit into our lives or our business. We waste time with these people when our focus should be on the people who are in.

The curious switch, from initially perceiving an obstruction to a problem to eventually embodying this obstruction as a number or an algebraic object of some sort that we can effectively study, is repeated over and over again, in different contexts, throughout mathematics. Much later, complex quadratic irrationalities also made their appearance. Again these were not at first regarded as "numbers as such," but rather as obstructions to the solution of problems.

There is no doubt in my mind that Article II limits to a considerable degree the application of the obstruction statutes to the president when he is acting in his capacity as chief law-enforcement officer of the country.

We have to stop any offense when they're operating at their best.

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

Who can stop you from thinking you are a god? No one. You are your only obstruction.

The hard core of egotism is difficult to dislodge except rudely. WIth its departure, the Divine finds at last an unobstructed channel. In vain It seeks to percolate through flinty hearts of selfishness.