Block Quotes

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Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed… — Lillian Hellman
The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the… — Franz Kafka
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden… — King Hussein I
We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building… — Barack Obama
Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We… — Julia Cameron
I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just… — Joyce Carol Oates
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't… — Stanley Kunitz
Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we… — Joko Beck
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly,… — Marcel Duchamp
Marriage is one of the most important institutions we have, it binds society and families together, it is a building block that promotes stability. This… — Maria Miller
The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my… — Lance Armstrong
So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds… — Kenny Rogers
I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible,… — Jose Mujica
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God… — Peter Kreeft
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce… — Abraham Lincoln
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the… — Abraham Lincoln
Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have… — William T. Piper
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners.… — Quentin Crisp

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