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Quotes About Impediment

If we don't do a better job of getting illegal worker immigration policies in place, it's going to be a significant impediment to a number of industries.
~ Thom Tillis
This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.
~ Al Kaline
We are in the midst of dangers so great and increasing, we are the guardians of causes so precious to the world, that we must, as the Bible says, "Lay aside every impediment" and prepare ourselves night and day to be worthy of the Faith that is in us.
~ Martin Gilbert
My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.
~ Junot Diaz
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
I am of the firm view that there is no impediment to me competing in athletics competitions.
~ Caster Semenya
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Drunkenness. This Greek word means overindulgence in alcohol. Alcohol may be used for medicine, but it can also become a terrible drug. The way it is used in our world is probably one of the great evils of our day. It is a self-inflicted impediment that springs from "a man taking a drink, a drink taking a drink, and drink taking the man." Distilled liquors as we have them today were unknown in Bible times.12
~ Billy Graham
Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.
~ Jon Krakauer
What is the usual healing time for; . . . . . . . 'A fly in the ointment'?
~ Francis M. Faber Jr.
The drains are clogged with strangled embryos.
~ Henry Miller
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
~ Sophocles
Chan has had the courage to subvert standard scholarly approaches to show that the very framework within which academics operate is itself an impediment to the leap of imagination required to meet the demands of our sublimely chaotic world.
~ Stephen Chan
One thing that does seem to particularly annoy people is my voice and my very slight, to me unnoticeable, speech impediment.
~ Lucy Worsley
Uh. . . why does your partner keep saying 'ing.' Mr Pin? ... Speech impediment.' said Pin.
~ Terry Pratchett
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Starting anew with a clean slate has been one of the most harmful ideas in history. It treats previous knowledge as an impediment and imagines that only present knowledge deployed in theoretical purity can make real the wondrous new vision.
~ Stewart Brand
though if Fanshawe had not spoken in so unbecoming a way, Laurence would have liked to keep Carver out of it, as he knew the boy had a poor head for heights, which struck him as a grave impediment for an aviator .
~ Naomi Novik
Mr. Allan recognizes that many status artifacts can be a burden, if not an impediment, to becoming financially independent. Life has its own burdens. Why add excess baggage?
~ Thomas J. Stanley
Perhaps the most salient impediment to our understanding of the movement is the notion that Christian nationalism is a "conservative" ideology. The correct word is "radical.
~ Katherine Stewart
Batting average is emblematic of how the weight of baseball history can be the largest impediment to success on the field.
~ Keith Law
Ay, there's the rub,
~ Genevieve Cogman
The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.
~ Marcus Aurelius