Road Blocked Quotes

#1. During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

Thomas Hobbes

#2. Sometimes you are garrulous, Taita.' Pharaoh was less than captivated by my lecture on the palace architecture. 'Get on

Wilbur Smith

#3. When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

Charles William Eliot

#4. Then, abrupt and decisive, the Emerald City rose before them. A city of insistence, of blanket declaration. It made no sense, clotting up the horizon, sprouting like a mirage on the characterless plains of central Oz. Glinda hated it from the moment she saw it. Brash upstart of a city.

Gregory Maguire

#5. We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.

Antonio Perez

#6. Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.

Thom Yorke

#7. To lead others out of darkness, let them see your light.

Tristan Bernard

#8. I know I feel like Gulliver sometimes, weighed down by little men. There are so many people in this house, I'm a queen bee, with every muscle dragging. I'm the heart of a cluster, black, dripping, sucking, hanging.

Enid Bagnold

#9. To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real?

Jay Woodman

#10. Don't sit down in the middle of the woods. If you're lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

Margaret Atwood

#11. It is not true as is romantically presumed that people frightened or injured or persecuted are wakeful. More often than not they retire into sleep to be free of trouble for a time.

John Steinbeck

#12. If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. Divine self exist in love, in faith and in purity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. She said nothing is done to oneself that one does not accept and that if I loved someone it would take it all away.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

Charles Dickens

#16. You got to keep all your weaknesses away, and my weakness is women. I love women too much. Which has definitely road-blocked me. I just try my best to channel my energy to other things and remain focused while making my work as fun as everything else.

Bow Wow

#17. Diplomatic," Barabas said. "Fuck diplomatic.

Ilona Andrews

#18. Your mind is likewise blocked. But the right road awaits you still. Cast out your doubts, your fears and your desires, let go of grief and of hope as well, for where these rule the mind is their subject.

Boethius

#19. My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Victor Borge

#20. This would be so much easier if [Allie] hadn't killed the jeep."
"For the last time," I growled at [Jackal]. "I just pointed out the street that wasn't blocked off. I didn't leave those nails on the road for you to drive over.

Julie Kagawa