Top 31 Stymied Quotes
#1. Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required. I have to protect my goddess, as best as I can.
Dennis Haysbert
#2. The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.
Barack Obama
#3. We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
Gijs De Vries
#4. We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
Arthur Erickson
#5. The fundamentalists were equally stymied. "We were worried about Adam and Steve," a Baptist minister said. "Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?
Charlaine Harris
#6. Why? (Lorelei)
Because I ... (Jack)
You? (Lorelei)
I ... (Jack)
For an eloquent man, Captain Rhys, you seem to be stymied for an answer. (Lorelei)
Lorelei, I don't want any other man to ever touch you. (Jack)
Kinley MacGregor
#7. You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.
Matt Chandler
#8. It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.
Jeff Goodell
#9. Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he'd tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.
Charlaine Harris
#10. Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome.
Stephen Jay Gould
#11. I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.
Joss Whedon
#12. There are so many women who I deal with, on a daily basis, that I don't feel like I've ever been stymied or struggled because I'm a woman.
Caroline Dries
#13. Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.
Benjamin Barber
#14. When someone in privileged circumstances gets a bit bewildered or stymied or maybe stumbles, the light he sees things in will change. But seeing things in a different light doesn't mean he's changed his vantage point.
Soseki Natsume
#15. If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.
Chris Bohjalian
#16. I feel relieved, reborn, I'm me again.
Free from heartbreak, that strong yet invisible chain,
That stymied me from living again.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#17. If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.
Milton Friedman
#18. He was stymied, unable to go forward, unable to go back.
Haruki Murakami
#19. I was both scattered and stymied, surrounded by unfinished songs and abandoned poems. I would go as far as I could and hit a wall, my own imagined limitations. And then I met a fellow who gave me his secret, and it was pretty simple. When you hit a wall, just kick it in. Todd
Patti Smith
#20. There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#21. Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.
Martin Short
#22. Making money, getting yourself status in this world is not everything at all. But it has become everything in America. That you really have to get going and keep up with the Jones'. Get a house and a car and other things. And pretty soon you're stymied. Things own you.
Frank Capra
#23. It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.
Maxwell Maltz
#24. The moon has become a dancer
at this festival of LOVE.
Rumi
#25. All that spring and summer, there were times when she felt as if she had no joints or muscles, no physical means with which to move about the world.
Julia Glass
#26. I love you Willow, but I can live without you. I just refuse to.
Emily Snow
#27. I can't say that electronic gear is restrictive. I think it is a challenge to play with electronic gear, and I regularly [perform] concerts with guys who are processing sound.
Volker Bertelmann
#28. They needed someone to hate, a tangible focus for their remorse and disappointment, and I'd been elected, the projection of their own inner hell.
Donald O'Donovan
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