PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy. — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . . — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
There are times when the welfare system may appear as an impediment to growth. Yet the drive for growth should always bear… — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to… — Waite Phillips Copy Share Image
The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“Awkward approximations, dull stammerings which cannot convey my sense of exhilaration as I seem to burst impediments, to exceed bounds of the… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any… — Ken Schwaber Copy Share Image
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of… — John By Copy Share Image
The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge… — J. H. Hexter Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off… — Charles Lichenstein Copy Share Image
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy. — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
