Impediments Quotes - Page 2

• Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, People, Age

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.130

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• When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Happiness, Joy

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Deaf, Advantage, Concerned

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• I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

  Tobe Hooper

  Tired, Long, Speech

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• We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off into the sunset.

  Charles Lichenstein

  Farewell, Sunset, Bidding

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• Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No law or resolution can now be passed without the concurrence first of a majority of the people, and then of a majority of the states.

  James Madison

  Law, People, Federalism

  Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (2018). “America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights”, p.403, First Avenue Editions

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• I would say 99 percent of the time, you're probably attracted to the other person because it is repairing something that's a little broken in yourself. When you're getting into the relationship, whether that becomes an impediment or the rocket fuel, that's the choice of the person who's in it.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Broken, Choices, Fuel

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Psychology, Ideals, Thyself

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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• We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Ignorant, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away.

  Saul Bellow

  Taken, Keys, People

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.422, Penguin

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• Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.
  Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
  That ocean of eternal peace is you.
  What is the difficulty that we suffer from?
  It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Ocean, Giving, Meditation

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• The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Home, Succeed, Workforce

  "Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: ‘I Feel Guilty Working Because Of My Kids’" by Catharine Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

  Herschel Walker

  Kids, Speech, Littles

  "Herschel Walker: 'Tell the World My Truth'" by Bob Woodruff, Jaime Hennessey and James Hill, abcnews.go.com. April 14, 2008.

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• This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way the traffic flows. Add impediments, the traffic endeavors to flow around them. Eilimate disparity. the traffic stops.

  George Saunders

  Country, Issues, Borders

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• Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spiritual, Attachment, Views

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Path of Compassion: Stories from the Buddha's Life”, p.111, Parallax Press

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• It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fear, Adventure, Pride

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hate, Writing, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas”, p.111, OUP Oxford

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• The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Understanding, Progress

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.173, Harvard University Press

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• Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.

  Radhanath Swami

  Humility, Humble, Perfection

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• It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, America, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

  Viggo Mortensen

  New York, Cities, Spain

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• Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship which imposes so many impediments on her, as traditional marriage does, women must be slightly mentally ill

  Jessie Bernard

  Sick, Doe, May

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• No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

  Sophocles

  Cheating, Cheat, Treaties

  "Fragments", l (671),

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• The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns. In this state you think no impediment can be large enough to interrupt your passion. The feeling spills beyond the object of your love to color the whole world. The mood is not unlike the mood of revolutionaries in the first blush of victory, at the dawn of hope. Anything seems possible. And in the event of failure, it will be this taste of possibility that makes disillusion bitter.

  Susan Griffin

  Hope, Passion, Love Is

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• To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.

  Tahir Shah

  Real, Self, Giving

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