Obstruction Quotes
62 quotes by 56 authors
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As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open…
— Marketa Irglova
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
— Vernon Howard
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In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings…
— Frederick Lenz
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A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you,…
— Eoin Colfer
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Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength…
— William James
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This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor…
— Steven Johnson
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By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I…
— Steve Erickson
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That is nice, Mr. Morgan. Because in response to your tough-guy speech, I, in turn, would’ve had to give you my tough-girl speech, about where,…
— Julie James
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When you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing because there is no thought. It's complete…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction…
— Michael Specter
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An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there…
— John J. Sirica
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People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.
— Tim Kaine
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But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
— Steny Hoyer
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Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.
— Jason Chaffetz
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The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this…
— David Hume
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The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
— Jeffrey Sachs
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