Impediment Quotes

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

Today, Greatest, Tomorrow

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Honore de Balzac

Good, Yourself, Nothing

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
Sophocles

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

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Place, Progress, Desire

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

Knowledge, Words, Greater

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

Power, Cool, Mean

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
John Philip Sousa

True, May, Rather

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

Reason, Act, Gangster

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

Women, Home, Succeeding

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
Constance Baker Motley

Society, Single, Common

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, Matter, Speech

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

Work, Far, Concerned

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

Mom, Dad, Woman

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

Success, Knowledge, Legal

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

Tough, Acting, Wanted

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

Small, Succeed, Loss

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
Tobe Hooper

Tired, Long, Hard

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

Word, Days, Speech

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