#blocking

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#actually #blocking #capture #city #defenders

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#begins #blocking #ends #his #man

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#blocking #gulf #gulf war #humanitarian #iraqis

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#business #came #casino #exit #fire

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground. ↗

— Betty Hill

#car #craft #got #ground #middle

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#affordable #affordable health care #always #american #american economy

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders. ↗

— Jim Otto

#differently #hands #head #instead #nfl

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#blocking #deception #essence #execution #football

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#exist #find #football #game #only

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated