Quotes About Obstruction

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

Washington is not good at getting things done.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

The fact is I tried for years to work with the financial industry on reasonable swipe fee reform, but the industry wouldn't have it.

You fat mountebank," he croaked. He wheeled and started for the door, found me in the way, blocking him, and stopped.

That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.

Just before he left Vietnam, Greene had a skirmish with American consular officials obstructing his plans to visit California and New York in February 1952. The McCarran Act of 1950, passed over Harry Truman's veto, attempted to keep people who had been communists or fascists out of the country.

The other cars had to pass noisily around us, but there was no anti-parking sign. Through the windshield, we could see another under-bridge area in front of us, and the cars that passed us were forming a line to enter it.

Jeremy shifted to the left, blocking my view of Clay, as if we were Siamese fighting fish that wouldn't attack if we couldn't see each other. "Come

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.'

El polvo ha cubierto de tierra los huertos, ha cegado las miradas y puesto cemento a las ideas

In contrast, when a coronary artery in your heart is only 30–40 percent blocked, it is more unstable because it's not calcified, and it has not had time to grow a protective network of collaterals. This is why these are called "vulnerable plaques"—because they are more likely to rupture and cause a sudden total obstruction, known as "catastrophic progression," which is as bad as it sounds.

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.

But corpses cannot easily be overlooked; they come in the way.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

No one can push you, pull you, or go with you. All thoughts, ideas, feelings, concepts, and systems of knowledge and belief boil down to this one unequivocal distinction; sewer or sunshine, dungeon or daylight, ego or surrender, obstruction or flow, segregation or integration, vertical entrenchment or horizontal progress.

What's the big flaw in your plan?" -"Victims who won't shut the fuck up.

You are looking at a murdered man, Father Prior. A man's hand fitted that arrow, a man's hand drew the bow, and for a man's reason. There must have been others who had a grudge against Rhisiart, others whose plans he was obstructing, besides Saint Winifred. Why blame this killing on her?

She is not a girl. She is a block of stone. She is a piece of wall. She is something against which other things impact without her permission or understanding.