#impediment

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat. ↗

— Sophocles

#ever #impediment #treaty

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#expecting #greatest #impediment #living #loses

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

— Howard Coble

#barriers #closer #democracy #erect #freedom

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#ambiguity #greater #impediment #knowledge #than

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

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself. ↗

— Patrick Campbell

#days #earliest #enjoyed #i #impediment

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#acting class #actor #always #class #decided

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic. ↗

— Frank Miller

#always #anything #because #blind #catholic

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