#impediment

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

#as far as #being #concerned #deaf #far

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#expecting #greatest #impediment #living #loses

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#been #did #had #having #hoped

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect. ↗

— Howard Coble

#barriers #closer #democracy #erect #freedom

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster. ↗

— David Arquette

#act #cause #gangster #given #i

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. ↗

— Jimmy Durante

#breathe #every #her #impediment #now

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#because #before #being #born #dad

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#home #impediment #now #succeeding #workforce

Why would someone for whom talking was torture want to talk all the time before thousands of Athenians? Because otherwise he’d have drown himself at high tide. My sister- so shy, so sincere- once wanted to be an actress. The best jazz drummer I’ve ever heard had only one arm. We all choose a calling that’s the most radical contradiction of ourselves. ↗

— David Shields

#speech-impediments #stammar #stutter #stuttering #life

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#bad #did #had #how #impediment