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Quotes About Barriers

Love is love, and a lot of times, people might be in the situation they're in because they put barriers up. Like, some people only want to date a model or an actor or an athlete. You're only limiting yourself. Open up to what's out there because God made us all.
~ Tamera Mowry
There are no obstacles for lovers.
~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann
the stronger the wall you surround your heart with, the harder you'll fall when love breaks and enters...
~ Prachi Bhattacharya Subnani
If the world stands in between a man and the woman he loves, he will set out to conquer it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.
~ Vironika Tugaleva
But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.
~ A.G. Howard, Splintered
Our ideas held no water but we used them like a dam.
~ Modest Mouse
But even talented people, sooner or later, cracked their heads against their own personal ceilings.
~ Monica Wood
Basie would lie on the mattress and talk endlessly, sometimes drinking from a bottle of Murree's whisky he'd bring with him, bought from one of the clandestine bars in Heer where there were locked cages for female drinkers, to prevent them from being sexually assaulted by the inebriated male clientele, as well as to stop the drunk women from killing every man in sight.
~ Nadeem Aslam
At a time when unprecedented wildfires engulf suburban homes in Melbourne, when waters from the rising Thames flood homes in London commuter towns, and when Superstorm Sandy transforms the New York subway into a canal system, the barriers that even the most urban and privileged among us have erected to hold back the natural world are clearly starting to break down.
~ Naomi Klein
He remarked that each of us was barred from silent knowledge by natural barriers, specific to each individual; and that the most impregnable of my barriers was the drive to disguise my complacency as independence.
~ Carlos Castaneda
When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
~ Maidie Norman
I'm not PC all the time in my phrasing, because that meets a wall; people won't hear it.
~ Ralphie May
I like to push my body to just extremity to get past the mental toughness barriers. So fighting at 145, that would be great. If Kenny Florian can do it, I can do it.
~ Tony Ferguson
When you start making a movie, people want to know: Who's the star power? And very early, I realized there's not a lot of 26-year-old black actors who have been given the opportunity to be the lead of a film. It's, like, Michael B. Jordan, and then we're done.
~ Jordan Peele
If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.
~ Dean Karnazes
When you break glass ceilings, you're going to get minor scrapes by a shard or two from the glass.
~ Valerie Jarrett
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality, a barrier which Buddhism calls the attachment to the false view of self. Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When we see the nature of interbeing, barriers between ourselves and others are dissolved, and peace, love, and understanding are possible. Whenever there is understanding, compassion is born. Just
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
the use of statistical process control tools to evaluate variation, correlate root cause, forecast capacity, and anticipate throughput barriers. By measuring incidence of preventable venous
~ Thomas H. Davenport
Es muy difícil para una mujer expresar sus sentimientos en un lenguaje que, principalmente, sirve para que los hombres expresen los suyos.
~ Thomas Hardy
We put words between ourselves and things.
~ Thomas Merton
languages as Asians, who outnumber them nearly four to one.121 Linguistic diversity is not only a sign of cultural isolation and fragmentation, it contributes to the barriers
~ Thomas Sowell
Whether people are united by navigable waterways or cut off by rugged mountains or other geographical barriers has enormous cultural as well as economic and political significance.
~ Thomas Sowell