Quotes About Obstruction

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics

The result often leaves those forced to deal with bureaucratic administration with the impression that they are dealing with people who have for some arbitrary reason decided to put on a set of glasses that only allows them to see only 2 percent of what's in front of them.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does express as Good in every person and every situation.

People say "God will find a way." God can't find a way if you're in the way.

The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.

Leaders who aren't conduits are either dams of dry.

Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."Luke 11:52

It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

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

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

A blocked path also offers guidance.

How do you make a dimmed light bright again? Remove the interference. How do you increase health in a dis-eased person? The same way!

I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

When you're corked...you're corked!

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

To take part in a severe contrast between intelligence, which presses forward,and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.

It may then seem that you had something very precious, and lost it, or your mind may convince you that it was all an illusion anyway. The truth is that it wasn't an illusion, and you cannot lose it. It is part of your natural state, which can be obscured but can never be destroyed by the mind. Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn't disappeared. It's still there on the other side of the clouds.

Several of the gates were cautiously opened; the importation of provisions from the river and the adjacent country was no longer obstructed by the Goths; the citizens resorted in crowds to the free market, which was held during three days in the suburbs; and while the merchants who undertook this gainful trade made a considerable profit, the future subsistence of the city was secured by the ample magazines which were deposited in the public and private granaries.