Quotes About Obstruction

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

Non è la strada che è difficile, è la difficoltà che è la strada".

The laborious process of causation which sooner or later will bring about every possible effect, including, consequently, those which one believed to be least possible, naturally slow at times, is rendered slower still by our desire (which in seeking to accelerate only obstructs it), by our very existence, and comes to fruition only when we have ceased to desire, and sometimes ceased to live.

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

I wish you may profit by my experience. Alas, how much time have I lost and wasted, which, had I been wise—I would have devoted to reading and studying the Bible! But my evil heart obstructs the dictates of my judgment, I often feel a reluctance to read this book of books, and a disposition to hew out broken cisterns which afford me no water, while the fountain of living waters are close within my reach!

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

Better make sure you're not in my way when I go down." My eyebrow lifted as I dipped my head to his level. "You wouldn't want to get squashed.

"But" is a fence over which few leap.

In a day if you don't come across any problems, you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong way.

Does anyone else get bothered by that last inch the shower curtain wont cover?

The laborious process of causation which sooner or later will bring about every possible effect, including (consequently) those which one had believed to be most nearly impossible, naturally slow at times, is rendered slower still by our impatience (which in seeking to accelerate only obstructs it) and by our very existence, and comes to fruition only when we have ceased to desire it—have ceased, possibly, to live.

we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

Trump, too, would pass, like a kidney stone.

As usual, though, if you find yourself running into a wall, stop running into a wall!

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with; if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.

When I stare at the sky, I see you. When I stare out into the ocean, I see you. When I'm looking at the moon, I see you. Geez! Would you move aside, you're constantly getting in my way.

For fuck's sake, these humans are always in the way, trying to save me from stuff.

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!

Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!