Quotes About Obstruction

But energy must flow somewhere," his voice continued. "Where energy meets obstructions, it burns — and if energy builds up beyond what a given individual can tolerate, it demands release. Anger grows into rage, sorrow turns to despair, concern becomes obsession, and physical aches become agony. So energy can also be a curse. Like a river, it can bring life, but untamed it can unleash a raging flood of destruction.

Francis Bacon once said, "There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Form serves us best when it works as an obstruction to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." —

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Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.

Henri Philippe Pétain

Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.

Prince Hippolyte, under pretense of helping, was in everyone's way.

It's like squeezing tripe: nothing comes out,' he said, meaning the Colasberna brothers, their partners, the town in general and Sicily as a whole.

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

Perhaps it is worse when love has flowed freely to find it one day dammed.

Il y a quelque chose de coincé dans le mécanisme

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.

We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.

No, you can forget their going anywhere.

Para que la luz manifieste su presencia, es necesario que un objeto material intercepte su trayecto. Estos «objetos» pueden ser los pétalos de una rosa, los pigmentos presentes en la paleta de un pintor, la retina de nuestro ojo o el espejo de un telescopio.

I don't give a shit what happens, I want you to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, or anything else, if it'll save it—save the plan.

And anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry.