Quotes About Barriers

I'm reminded," he begins, "of a famous cartoon. It's of a prisoner, shaking the bars, desperately trying to get out—but to his right and left, it's open, no bars.

Maybe I didn't want to let you in," she said. Yeah, well, right back at ya, honey.

I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall.

Words created the future, exacerbated problems, raised barriers between them. But in the silence of Ford's sleep, Ford could love Dan easily; in the stillness of Ford's rest, Dan could adore him without question or fear.

I rely on images of violence, which bring the shock of pain, to penetrate the barriers people erect and defend, not simple defenses; the phony facades people live behind. Blocking their perceptions from coming in, and blocking their feelings from coming put. There are two way I try to shatter those facades, or at least make a hole where something can get in, to let the trapped feelings out--one way is violence, pain. The other is eroticism.

Defensiveness shuts down honesty and keeps truth from being expressed.

She pretended to find dust ruffles feminine and cozy, but really they were just flimsy barriers beyond which lurked the malign viscosity under her bed.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

There are two ways of looking at walls. Either they are built to keep people you fear out or they are built to keep people you love in. Either way, you create a divide.

True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

Management must understand design of product and of service, procurement of materials, problems of production, process control, and barriers on the job that rob the hourly worker of his birthright, the right to pride of workmanship.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting.

It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon." I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.

Jesus' death, he said, broke down the temple barriers, dismantling the dividing walls of hostility that had separated categories of people. Grace found a way.

I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist. Those

I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace.