We’re making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It’s just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.
Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question – ‘Now what?’ Often this question is followed by a – deer in the headlights – response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor’s ability to earn a living.
Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain’s cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening – not to say healthy – old age.
The original ‘Hobbit’ was never intended to have a sequel – Bilbo ‘remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long’: a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
I’ve got a lot of balance beams, which has been fun walking down these beams, and I’ve made an obstacle course and doing whatever I can to be as healthy and strong in those areas that have been my weakness.
I can’t understand people missing a show because they’re sick: They’ve missed their best performance. You have an obstacle to overcome, and you reach for the heavens, and, doggone it, the heavens answer you.
Every day some new fact comes to light – some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.
Our Cuba policy was a major obstacle to getting things done in the hemisphere and a source of tension around the world.
