Quotes About Obstruction

The only thing potentially worse than not being able to see the forest for the trees is not being able to see the trees because of the forest. —Anonymous

the fans interfered with the radar so they were turned off

When something large and oncoming passed, the windshield's big rectangle was for a moment incandesced and opaque with water, which the wipers heaved mightily to displace.

Certe cose non solo non possono essere insegnate, ma possono essere ritardate da altre cose che invece possono essere insegnate

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

I wonder," he says, "how it can be that, though all these people think they know the king's pleasure, the king finds himself at every turn impeded." At every turn, thwarted: maddened and baffled.

Ever since his inauguration, President Trump's political opponents have been pushing to impeach him. They just hadn't found the right excuse. In other words, they knew where they wanted to end up but they just hadn't found the right vehicle to drive them down the road.

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.

Pretty hard to see when you refuse to look. Pretty hard to hear when you refuse to listen.

He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. 

Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. If he can squirm in anywhere where he particularly is not wanted, and be a perfect nuisance, and make people mad, and have things thrown at his head, then he feels his day has not been wasted. To get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour, is his highest aim and object; and, when he has succeeded in accomplishing this, his conceit becomes quite unbearable.

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to diminish the majorities mediocrity.

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

Big Oil, Wall Street and big business as a whole - they stand in the way of the kinds of change needed. They are fiercely against the radical reforms Bernie Sanders is popularizing.

Remember the street car cannot turn out.

If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.

there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.

A man may be free from all scandal in either creed or conduct but may be a most grievous obstruction in the way of all spiritual good to his people. He may be a dry and empty cistern in spite of his orthodoxy. He may be freezing or blasting life at the very time he is speaking of the way of life. He may be repelling men from the cross even when he is proclaiming it in words. He may be standing between his flock and the blessing even when he is outwardly lifting up his hand to bless them.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Kit Darling has become a celebrity. An underdog's hero. Everyone is rooting for her." "Charge her with what?" asks Ben. "Fraud? Extortion? Obstruction of justice? Staging a false scene—isn't that a criminal offense?" Renata says, "Usually a false scene relates to falsifying evidence in order to obscure or obfuscate a real homicide investigation.