Top 1200 Stumbling Block Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

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

The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

I always to try block everything out, good or bad. I always hope to keep receiving blessings, to have faith, because you know, there's a time to block everything out and just work on your craft, work on everything that you desire to get, desire to want.

There is more to a fall than just flopping or stumbling. You can get hurt unless you know what you're doing.

I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

The government and its prosecutors are continually trying to block my efforts to win my freedom and expose their judicial wrong doings; they systematically try to block me from obtaining FBI files which I know would exonerate me. I don't know the exact conditions of everybody else, but I do know that I have been denied adequate and proper health care and I suffer greatly from that.

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

I don't think writers should have writer's block. I think they should write. Imagine you were a bus driver and you said, 'I've got bus driver's block.' Get over it.

If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

On my block, we grew up like family. Summer times, man, psshh, we in the back in the alley or in the front on the block. Somebody has some music playing, and nine times out of ten, it's soul music. We got whatever we drinking that day, we got some food, we probably even grilling. It's just a good time.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

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

Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)

Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half of them the husband went to work and the wife stayed home. Now on that same block almost eight of the wives work. That's one reason why I want equal pay for equal work, and why affordable day care, early childhood education, and universal pre-K are so important to me.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.

I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

In Brooklyn, the block wasn't very long or very wide, and not that many kids were out there, either. But when I got to Florida, there were a lot of kids on my block, young kids, older kids, and they could play outside until the sun went down and have fun.

What if the counterculture was only a stumbling beginning, rather than the best that could be hoped for?

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not.

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

As a teenager, I didn't really think about anything. I was just stumbling around trying to find something.