Quotation Explorer - 'Block'

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block. - John Kerry
WHEN THE ALMIGHTY HAS PREDESTINED YOU, THERE IS NOONE IN THIS PHYSICAL LIFE THAT CAN BLOCK YOUR BLESSINGS..... - Muffin
Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone. - L.R. Knost
I don’t experience writer’s block, I only have periods of severe writer’s diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from the shit later on. - Kevin Focke
History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights) - Kat Georges
Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. - Martha Graham
If your heart is pure, you block any harm. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back. - Captain Chief
You will not be able to envision your future until you block out the words of those who constantly scorch you with discouraging remarks - Evy Michaels
If you're servant enough, you can shrink into the shadows, even in the bright morning sun and even if you're large enough to often block it. - Erica Eisdorfer
By fully experiencing and going beyond an emotional block - through the layers of doubt and fear - you experience the emotion of who you truly are. - Stephen Richards
Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel. - Ally Spina
dont harden your heart; because of the past, it'll block your sight, of a positive future. - Nikki Rowe
I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. - Jennifer Egan
I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper. - Lillian R. Melendez
My self-respect is my biggest cock block. - Maggie Young
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. - Martha Graham
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block. - Ryan Lilly
nothing can block your light. what's for you will be yours even when shade is thrown - Alexandra Elle
Music is the building block for things yet to come. - Imani Nettles
You cannot forget, despite the effort to block the memories. These horrific remnants of your past will still remain in your brain, they will follow you wherever you go. They are the things that have scarred you. - athena_griffinclaw_erudite
Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you. - Jason Mraz
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. - Dan Rather
Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship. - jonathon acuff
By the study of Boltzmann I have been unable to understand him. He could not understand me on account of my shortness, and his length was and is an equal stumbling block to me. - James Clerk Maxwell
You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. - John Rogers
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. - Sophia Loren
I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block. - Tyler Hojberg
The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus devised, or rather evolved, to form some sort of mental contact with reality--or to block it off. That is, a large circle of the "thinking," "educated" class take ideas as more veridical than facts. - Robert Conquest
I'm tired of hearing so many lies, please someone would invent a chipset installed on my ear that would block lies! - Hamid Karima
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. - Don Roff
Every goal has a road block; that is our fear of failure. - Debasish Mridha
I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper. - Lillian R. Melendez
Writers Block? Get out and have fun. Love yourself. No use frowning and buying anti-wrinkle cream after. - Juan Morris
The Mind can think only one thought at a time. If your mind is occupied by a meaningless thought, you block a meaningful thought from entering it. - RVM
Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone? - Richie Norton
I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely. - Sarah Dessen
I never get writer's block. My secret...I have purring cats in surround sound while I write...best white noise on the planet." R.Rose when asked how she deals with writer's block. - R. Rose
Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view. - Susan J. McIntire
Having sex with her had been a catalyst, new flesh for the virus to feed on. No matter how hard he tried to block her out, she was always there at the back of his mind. Calling him. Begging him to go to her. - Jacqueline Francis - The Journal
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. - Julia Child
Truly worthy are those who become brighter as the days get cloudier so that their light shines through, regardless of how hard the clouds are working to block their radiance. - Pooja Ruprell
Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego. - Norman Mailer
Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. - Warren Ellis
Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends. - Derrick Wolf
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. - Frank Zappa
Every success and every bit of progress, is a building block for your next step. - Auliq Ice
Bitterness block the sacred blessings. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun. - J.R. Rim
Open you eyes to the world around you.. Block out the screams of pessimism.. Release your inhibitions! - Nike Thaddeus
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God. - Paul Tournier
Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world. - Matthew Donnelly
The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Writer's block is just another name for fear. - Jacob Nordby
Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing. - Giando Sigurani
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts.
A book tightly shut is but a block of paper. - Chinese Proverb
There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable. - Roopleen
I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free. - Michelangelo
Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine. - Chriscinthia Blount
Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it. - Ron Brackin
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? - Erma Bombeck
Princes & KingsIsn't it strange how princes and kings,and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,and common people, like you and me,are builders for eternity?Each is given a list of rules;a shapeless mass; a bag of tools.And each must fashion, ere life is flown,A stumbling block, or a Stepping-Stone. - R. Lee Sharpe
Never block that person who is always available for you all the time. Never block him because you may not know what he has done for you. It is the biggest mistake you do in your life - Arshdeep Singh Samrala
When I stopped trying to block my sadness and let it move me instead, it led me to a bridge with people on the other side. I learned that sadness does not sink a person; it is the energy a person spends trying to avoid sadness that does that. - Barbara Brown Taylor
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block. - Inigo DeLeon
There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. - Martha Graham
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. - Steve Martin
Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations. - Bryant McGill
The inner peace can block any windy weather. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Problems are always there for those who are looking for themSo look for the solution, not the road block or the problem. - Debasish Mridha
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