Barrier Quotes
295 Barrier quotes by 250 unique authors
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If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In…
— Viswanathan Anand
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The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to…
— Geoff Mulgan
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You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.
— Tom Perrotta
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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the…
— Aldous Huxley
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17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we…
— Louise Glück
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition.…
— Gustave Flaubert
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What barrier is there that love cannot break?
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last…
— David Wilkerson
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Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril…
— C.S. Lewis
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I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know…
— Freddie Mercury
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Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are…
— Milan Kundera
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As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend…
— Charles Darwin
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He looked at my lips. I suddenly found myself wanting to lick his. 'Yes,' he replied, his eyes going molten. My breath caught in my…
— Katie MacAlister
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What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed her lips. "You…
— Richelle Mead
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Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is…
— Stephen King
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The Set animal’s jaws were pried open so fast that it yelped and let go of my arm. I stood, now encased in a magical…
— Rick Riordan
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The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't…
— Neal Shusterman
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People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little…
— Matt de la Pena
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In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse…
— Helen Keller
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Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our…
— Milan Kundera
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Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.
— Milan Kundera
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Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.
— Neal Stephenson
Who Wrote These Barrier Quotes
250 authors contributed a total of 295 Barrier Quotes, led by these top contributors: