Matthew Stover Quotes

We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

Obstruction takes time.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

I can always make trouble for who I guard and control the effort I bring.

The same way you slow me down: … You can’t.

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

I don't want to be told what's for my good.

I will not get very far with this attitude.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

The minority makes every effort to delay business.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...” “Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore.

Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

Too many locks, not enough keys.