Impediment
That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
To impede.
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Impediment Quotations
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Honore de Balzac
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
Sophocles
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
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
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
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
Peter Stuyvesant
I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
Tobe Hooper
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
Sheryl Sandberg
Impediment Translations
impediment in Latin is impedimentum
impediment in Norwegian is hinder
impediment in Spanish is impedimento
impediment in Swedish is hinder
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