Block Quotes

1192 quotes by 1012 authors

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or… — Floyd Abrams
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him… — George Eliot
the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends… — A. R. Ammons
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun. — Stephen Spender
While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of… — John W. Thompson
I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word understanding. — John Searle
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… — Jim Ryun
Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn… — Jon Katz
Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him — Michelangelo
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at… — Pericles
Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through… — Dinaw Mengestu
And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment, the blocks, the… — Jami Attenberg
And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little… — Tim Winton
Head held high, she stepped toward the block and sank to her knees, and it was then that Akiva started to scream. His voice soared… — Laini Taylor
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that… — Chris Bonington
When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated… — Alan Hirsch
The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from… — Ravi Zacharias
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready… — Julie Ann Dawson
I want to start dating the man that Iâ€™m gonna marry. I want to start having some fun with someone that I know Iâ€™m gonna… — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was… — Frank Lloyd Wright

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