Quotes about Obstruction

I want to stop goals going in the net.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—how not to do it.

Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat...

Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally, ethically, or spiritually.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

And those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things—they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver—not aloud, but to himself—that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine it, cannot say to it, Go here, or Go there, and make it obey; cannot save a shore which it has sentenced; cannot bar its path with an obstruction which it will not tear down, dance over, and laugh at.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.