Quotes About Block

By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you blocked and deleted. You may now kiss my ass.

How has Facebook not came out with a block all game request button yet?

What is a nebulous mass, just out of idle curiosity? A possible growth in the body. And it's called nebulous because you can't get a clear picture of it. We get very clear pictures. The imaging block takes the clearest pictures humanly possible. It's called a nebulous mass because it has no definite shape, form, or limits. What can it do in terms of worst-case scenario contingencies? Cause a person to die. Speak English, for God's sake. I despise this modern jargon.

the debris nor the smoke which blocked the tunnel

It was a neighborhood that had degenerated from Victorian to nothing in particular, a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds.

To sell war bonds, they had already organized nearly the entire city, all the way down to the level of each block, making each residential block the responsibility of "a logical leader no matter what her nationality"—i.e., an Irishwoman in an Irish neighborhood, an African American woman in an African American neighborhood, and so on. They intended to use that same organization now to distribute everything from medical care to food.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

You know, if chickens had government and church and history, they would take a distant and distasteful view of human joy. Let any gay and hopeful thing happen to a man, and some chicken goes howling to the block.

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.

I know it's hard for you to allow yourself to feel this. You've gone so long training yourself to block the feelings and emotions out any time someone touches you.

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.

It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.

Yes, it's good to be able to block things out. But maybe the terrible images persist for a reason: to tell the truth. Which is a terrible and terribly important thing.

Writer's block is just another name for fear.

Everywhere I went in Africa it was the same story. Foreign-funded NGOs, supported mainly by donors in Europe, were delaying or blocking the development not just of biotechnology but of modern agriculture generally across the continent.

Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog

He waited until Leyers was inside, and then headed back toward Piazzale Loreto and Beltramini's Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. In less than a block, he'd endured enough vile looks to realize he'd be smart to take off the swastika armband and stick it in his back pocket. That made things better. People barely gave him a glance. He was in uniform, and he wasn't SS or Wehrmacht. That was all they would care about

A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.

He just got his body between himself and the goal.

Amnesia—A specific and significant block of time that has passed but that cannot be accounted for by memory.

Change can either challenge or threaten us...Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Intellectual understanding of a problem blocks the kind of presence that empathy requires. When we are thinking about people's words and listening to how they connect to our theories, we are looking at people - we are not with them.

I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time.