Quotes About Obstruction

The enchanter Stammelford,' interrupted the priest, once more taking on the tone and poise of an academic lecturer, 'once moved a mountain because it obstructed the view from his tower. Nobody has managed to do the like, before or since. Because Stammelford, so they say, had the services of a d'ao, an Earth genie.

The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.

The Founders surely never imagined that a three-fifths majority would be the standard requirement for passing legislation in the upper chamber, and for most of American history it wasn't. But filibuster use skyrocketed in 1993, when Republicans found themselves locked out of the White House and big Democratic congressional majorities.

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

I think it's a crime to prevent love from happening.

We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways.

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

Change has it's enemies.

her beauty got in the way, like a thick cobweb through which it was difficult to see her clearly.

What's bureaucracy?" I asked, finally getting a word in edgewise. "Red tape . . . the system, " Aahz informed me. "The organization to get things done that keeps things from getting done.

Not only had Burr's plan failed to provide pure water but it had thwarted other sound plans afoot, including those for a municipal water company.

Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear

But why on earth?" "When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear

Why is it that 'we' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have any obstruction (antray)? It is because 'we' are in a desire-free state (Nirichchhak dasha).

One who speaks 'completely' negative creates karmic obstructions (antray) and 'positive' does not create any obstruction (antray).

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

bureaucracy was very rarely an obstruction, provided that one applied to it the insights of ordinary, everyday psychology

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

El error y verdadero pecado es la identificación con una idea particular, puesto que allí el crecimiento se obstruye y bloquea. En cambio, sin identificación todo fluye y se fluye en el todo sin ningún obstáculo.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Stop derailing my plans with logic and reason,

how much I'd been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man