Best Hindrance Quotations
132 Hindrance quotes by 119 unique authors
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The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice.…
— Pope Leo XIII
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. . . [Y]ou must understand that we have always considered the writing of books a hindrance to our work, and that for this reason…
— Vincent de Paul
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Sometimes you need to be terrified to your bones, in order for you to find your way to safety. Pain somewhat has this ability to…
— Rita Zahara
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I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in…
— Michael Atiyah
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I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar…
— Steve Kazee
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or…
— Epictetus
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform…
— Ralph Steadman
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I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be…
— Martin Luther
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I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the…
— Lucy Stone
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I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.
— Cees Nooteboom
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Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.
— Cobi Jones
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The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It seems that when…
— O. S. Hawkins
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Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of the law. But…
— Ashraf Ghani
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If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a…
— William Cowper
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The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.
— Susan Sontag
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A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.
— Harsha Bhogle
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So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the…
— Kyongho
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The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl.
— Frederick Lenz
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
— John Stuart Mill
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even…
— Immanuel Kant
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In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his…
— Flannery O'Connor
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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
— William Least Heat-Moon
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