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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. -- John le Carre
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Obama has offered no solutions; his Democratic majority in the Senate has failed to produce a budget in 1,200 days; and they have both obstructed the Republicans' proposed remedies. -- David Limbaugh
During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan. -- Hideki Tojo
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life. -- William Banting
The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit. -- James F. Byrnes
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success. -- Julian Baggini
Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge. -- Krister Stendahl
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed. -- Friedrich Engels
...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. -- Shulamith Firestone
I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice, -- Richard M. Nixon
Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others. -- Rachel Cusk
Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed. -- Dalai Lama
Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive -- Madeleine Albright
When we let the energy of our existence flow freely, without being obstructed by fear, happiness finds its way into our daily lives. -- Raphael Zernoff
The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached. -- Napoleon Hill
I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom. -- Gao Xingjian
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure. -- Samuel Johnson
When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt him and not grow tired of him. -- Laozi
Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does express as Good in every person and every situation. -- Ernest Holmes
Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed. -- Ramana Maharshi
Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him onward, and that a supernatural power had obstructed his retreat. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes. -- Hugo Black
I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed. -- Mae West

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