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I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good. -- Peter Sarsgaard
Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society. -- Ernest Gellner
Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime. -- Jason Chaffetz
I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule. -- Mark Messier
Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing. -- Robert Falcon Scott
If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees. -- John Cornyn
Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice. -- Barbara Olson
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 to everything is what makes wonderful things happen. If I don't worry, there's no obstruction and life flows easily. It sounds impractical, but 'Expect nothing; be open to everything' is really all it is. -- Marketa Irglova
Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions. -- Dan Millman
Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative. -- Albert Einstein
With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition. -- Ernest Holmes
The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. -- Jeffrey Sachs
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction. -- Bruce Lee
Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life. -- Jeanne Achterberg
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction. -- Bruce Lee
Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
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 never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction -- William James
Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity. -- Laurence Sterne
Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in. -- Annie Besant
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy. -- John Jay Chapman
Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you. -- Anthony de Mello
Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power. -- Anandamayi Ma
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 be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I know with certainty, that [an honest man] is not to put his hand into the fire, and hold it there, till it be consumed: And thisevent, I think I can foretell with the same assurance, as that, if he throw himself out at the window, and meet with no obstruction, he will not remain a moment suspended in the air. -- David Hume
People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent. -- Tim Kaine
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
The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent. -- Preston Sturges
Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. -- John J. Sirica
Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround. -- Nick Turse
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 that, despite renewed interest on every continent, it is unlikely another will be built in the United States. -- Michael Specter
I will overcome every obstruction. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom. -- Bion of Smyrna
Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom. -- Wilfred Bion
Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success. -- Charles F. Glassman
An obstacle is nothing but a temporary obstruction waiting to be tackled. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'. -- Walter Bagehot
For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. -- Francis Bacon
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. -- Vernon Howard
Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow. -- Morihei Ueshiba
the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction. -- Helen McCloy
Martha Stewart was convicted of four counts of lying and obstruction of justice and could serve up to 20 years in Congress. -- Craig Kilborn
The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction. -- Hugh Prather
We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 had problems. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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 had problems. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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, and proceed to the next command. -- Eoin Colfer
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 swim to you. I know the water. -- Steve Erickson
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction -- William James

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