Obstructive Quotes

#1. The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.

Martin Durkin

#2. State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. Reality is always so obstructive.

Eric Ambler

#4. In fact, man has been able to make his pursuit of power easier to-day by his art of mitigating the obstructive forces that came from the higher region of his humanity.

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors. And although this may be point 4.5, how about organizing a mass refusal to pay back student loans?

Barbara Ehrenreich

#6. Nothing is more obstructive to the investigation of the truth than prior commitments to partial truths.

Jacobus Arminius

#7. Obstructive Sleep Apnea - When you have obstructive sleep apnea, you stop breathing for seconds or even minutes while you are sleeping. Usually, you stop each episode by snorting or coughing yourself awake. The cycle can repeat itself five to 30 times per hour throughout the night.

Alex Brecher

#8. Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

Alfred North Whitehead

#9. How far is the Soul from attaining moksha (ultimate liberation)? Only the obstructive (antray) karmas.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

Frederick Forsyth

#11. Bronchitis is a long-term disease of the lungs. It is one disease in a group of lung diseases called COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The damage

Anonymous

#12. In reality, the outer instruments (hands, feet, eyes, etc) are not the hindrance (for liberation); it is the inner instrument (mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is obstructive.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Caitlyn Jenner

#14. Any aggressive lust lacks balance and is unwholesome and obstructive.

Bryant McGill

#15. It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

Georg Buchner

#17. Humans are fragile. Bats are tough and almost impossible to get rid of. Ask any exterminator

Richard Myerscough

#18. The problem of living a Christian life in a non-Christian society is pressing, since most of our social institutions are non-Christian and in pagan hands. The family remains the only trustworthy transmitter of Christian culture.

Henry R. Van Til

#19. For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

Aristotle.

#20. I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.

William F. Longgood

#21. The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign

Heraclitus

#22. my bleeding heart. I want to crawl inside of his skin and drown myself in his blood. I want to swim in his marrow.

E.K. Blair