"I could take care of that obstacle for her - I'd tear down anything standing between us - but I couldn't destroy what I couldn't even see."
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"Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time."
"I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path."
"In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth."
"In most cases there are obstacle standing between you and those opportunities in life but, I just want you to know that front row seat is available everywhere."
"If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle."
"Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome."
"The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture."
"To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!"
"Bigger than any obstacle is the strength that one posses It's a power that overcomes every obstacle"
"The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living."
"In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead."
"I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child."
"I tried to be strong in the face of obstacles."
"My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles."
"Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped."