Stumbling Blocks Quotes - Page 3

• It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Block, Ignorance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Block, Moving, Mad

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• You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

  Susan Lucci

  Block, Shy, Stumbling

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• Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

  Danica McKellar

  Perseverance, Teacher, Block

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• That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

  John Podhoretz

  Fashion, Block, Snow

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• If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

  Paul Cezanne

  Strong, Block, Artist

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• If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

  Brand Blanshard

  Block, Science, Consciousness

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• [T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Block, Struggle, Men

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• Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Block, Nuts, Land

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.139, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.

  Chandra Wilson

  Growing Up, Block, Doe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion: for you must consider that you live among diseased souls. And you must not lay a stumblingblock in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lust, nor make your ornaments their snares; but you must walk among sinful persons, as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder; or else you may see the flame which you would not foresee, when it is too late to quench it.

  Richard Baxter

  Block, Blow, Fire

  "The Christian directory".

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• Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

  Thomas Steven Molnar

  Block, Ideas, May

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• Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

  Pericles

  Wise, Wisdom, Block

  As recorded by Thucydides, in the "History of the Peloponnesian War". Translated by Richard Crawley, 1951.

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• Ultimately, success is not measured by first-place prizes. It's measured by the road you have traveled: how you have dealt with the challenge and the stumbling blocks you've encountered along the way.

  Nicole Haislett

  Success, Block, Challenges

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

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Bible, Block, Biblical

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• Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Block, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Journal: Dec. 1, 1853-Aug. 31, 1854”

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• New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

  Jerry Saltz

  New York, Block, Mean

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• Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Block, People, Strange

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• Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

  Edward Carpenter

  Strong, Block, Heart

  Edward Carpenter “The Intermediate Sex”, Routledge

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• Congenital naysayers are among the greatest stumbling blocks to thinking free. Rather than imagining how a new idea might possibly work, they instinctively think of all the reasons why it won't. They sincerely believe that they are doing everyone a favor by reducing the amount of time spent on bad or foolish ideas. But what they really do is undermine the creativity that can be harvested from thinking free.

  Steven Sample

  Block, Believe, Creativity

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• I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

  Agatha Christie

  Sorry, Block, Our World

  "Murder International: Including So Many Steps to Death Death Comes as the End Evil Under the Sun".

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  The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

  Julia Child

  Attitude, Block, Real

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

  Arthur Desmond

  Block, Ambition, Stumbling

  "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.

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• Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know.

  Stan Lee

  Block, Directors, Want

  Source: www.ign.com

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