obstacle quotes

The original ‚Hobbit‘ was never intended to have a sequel – Bilbo ‚remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long‘: a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.