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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat. -- Sophocles
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. -- Seneca the Younger
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home. -- Sheryl Sandberg
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society. -- Constance Baker Motley
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. -- Thomas Reid
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. -- Jimmy Durante
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. -- Stephanie Beacham
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. -- Honore de Balzac
I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on. -- Herschel Walker
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. -- Peter Stuyvesant
From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing. -- Michael Otto
I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster. -- David Arquette
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself. -- Patrick Campbell
The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work. -- Martin Rees
P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment. -- Herschel Walker
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
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. -- Kirk Douglas
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius. -- John Philip Sousa
Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices. -- Joel Salatin
I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born. -- Mary Cheney
I remember when I was young, there was an older boy who was physically and mentally disabled. He had a speech impediment and walked with difficulty. The boys used to make fun of him. They teased and taunted him until sometimes he would cry. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too. -- Walter Dean Myers
I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me. -- Gareth Gates
I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic. -- Frank Miller
Self-love knows no impediment. -- Lynda Obst
The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment. -- Matthew Specktor
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. -- Sigmund Freud
Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength. -- Libba Bray
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path. -- Nhat Hanh
Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives. -- Michael Eisner
Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves. -- James Altucher
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy. -- Alice Rivlin
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. -- Seneca the Younger
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. -- Marcus Aurelius
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. -- Allan Bloom
I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment. -- Terry Pratchett
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. -- Anthony S. Fauci
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. -- Anthony S. Fauci
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy. -- C. S. Lewis
There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment. -- Ramana Maharshi
The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong". -- U Thant
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. -- Ambrose Bierce
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope. -- Ambrose Bierce
An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . . -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes, -- Lucian Leape
It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired. -- Tobe Hooper
Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue. -- Ambrose
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy. -- George Fetherling
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing. -- Samuel Smiles
He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment. -- Amy Thomson
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
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
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
I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead. -- Bill Walton
Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.". -- Ambrose Bierce
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds. -- John Maynard Keynes
I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say. -- Ian Gomez
There are times when the welfare system may appear as an impediment to growth. Yet the drive for growth should always bear in mind the fact that people also need security -- Romano Prodi
That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization. -- Sam Harris
I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations that restricted new entry into the air cargo market. -- Frederick W. Smith
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world. -- Carl Sagan
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
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit. -- Bernard Lown
As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life. -- Bill Maris

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