Top 618 Blocks Quotes & Sayings

Bilaterals are like building blocks for multilaterals.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens at the base. In Cuba we call them blocks, the divisions of a city that is the term we use. Several blocks of neighborhoods that live in the same area gather in assemblies that are stipulated by law. In those assemblies the people choose freely among themselves who will represent them. The criteria takes into account the candidates characteristics, including if they are hardworking, If they are good people, if they have a clean past, and money has no bearing on who is nominated.

My mind is in another planet behind the blocks. Sometimes I'm up in the blocks, and I'm like, 'What am I doing here?' I'm just not trying to think too much.

Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.

I think that it's difficult to talk about large questions of economics or social policy without understanding the building blocks of society. And those building blocks are organizations, the people who run them, and the people who work in them.

With '89 Blocks,' we found a special story that needed to be told.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

Despite the laserlike focus it generates, 'Tetris' has no clear endpoint and no easily defined opponents. Unlike with most other video games, you're playing only against yourself, without any concrete goals other than to keep on fitting blocks into other blocks.

Stressing and obsessing over your vision blocks it.

Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

I'm working with fragments a lot of the time and the connective tissue isn't there yet. I think of it the way comics work. You have a block here and a block here, and there's this white space in between. Somehow your mind makes the leap to connect those two blocks. Finding a way to trick your mind into connecting those blocks is one of the fun things for me about writing. You can have those leaps that will emerge into something, if you're lucky.

Thinking based on who deserves what blocks compassionate communication.

The building blocks of life are readily available throughout the universe.

The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them.

This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

Everything you're currently against blocks you from abundance.

The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.

I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong.

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

You hit road blocks in life, but I'm living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and become what you want to become.

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody understands that if we were to have a solution then those blocks would stay in Israel. And that's where you saw these cranes; that's where Israelis live. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, everybody understands, they will stay.

Some games I'm going to get more blocks or they're going to do more mistakes and give up more baskets but some games I get zero blocks and I affect 20 shots.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You do not write copy, you assemble it. You are working with a series of building blocks, you are putting the building blocks together, and then you are putting them in certain structures, you are building a little city of desire for your person to come and live in.

Every judgement blocks the light!

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Judging others blocks me from inner peace

I like to have prolonged blocks of time where I don't have meetings scheduled.

A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.

You can auction coal blocks. All natural resources of government should be auctioned.

'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"

I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.

When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks.

It's not how you come out of the starting blocks.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

I think they shouldn't allow cut blocks, because our knees are important to us, too. I know concussions are a big deal, too, but I think knee, cut blocks are a big deal, but that seems to be OK with the NFL. So they're not too concerned about safety, obviously.

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One

I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

When I am on the blocks, I don't care who you are - I will always try and beat you.

Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gun play.

Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.