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Quotes About Barriers

And yet there is space for human creativity to creep between those iron bars. We bend them, we slip through them from time to time.
~ Unknown
The great hope of the Tet Offensive was that its very size and daring would trigger a surge of nationalism that would transcend barriers of ideology, class, and faith.
~ Mark Bowden
Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.
~ Avery Sunshine
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
~ Thomas Hardy
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
~ Alexander Herzen
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
~ Maya Angelou
The most powerful force on earth is Love. It conquers all barriers.
~ Terry Mark
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.
~ Socrates
A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and throws a bridge from self-being to self-being across the abyss of dread of the universe.
~ Martin Buber
Complex biospheres like the Earth's could be rare because of some bottleneck, some key stage in evolution, that is hard to transit. Perhaps it is the transition to multicellular life. (The fact that simple life on Earth seems to have emerged quite quickly, whereas even the most basic multicellular organisms took nearly three billion years, suggests that there may be severe barriers to the emergence of any complex life.)
~ Unknown
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
~ Mary Astell
Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.
~ Mary Beard
Es habitual pensar que las mujeres que ocupan cargos de poder están derribando barreras o apoderándose de algo a lo que no tienen derecho.
~ Mary Beard
That was the problem with walls, Carlene thought as she looked out the window. They kept people out, but they also trapped people in.
~ Unknown
The biggest barriers she faced were man-made, not physical.
~ Unknown
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
~ Unknown
I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.
~ Mary Miller
It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren't really thinking. This is one of your barriers.' 'Barriers?' 'Yes. You have a lot of them. They stop you from seeing the truth.' 'About what?' 'About yourself. And you really need to start trying. To see the truth. Because this matters.
~ Matt Haig
It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren't really thinking. This is one of your barriers.
~ Matt Haig
No. The Book of Regrets is getting lighter. There's a lot of white space in there now . . . It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren't really thinking. This is one of your barriers.' 'Barriers?
~ Matt Haig
Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
~ Matthew Arnold
Non preoccuparti delle barriere degli altri: è sufficiente che tu abbatta le tue.
~ Max Stirner
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
~ Maya Angelou