Quotes about Barrier

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.

He traced her face with one finger again. 'A woman is either a wall or a door, beloved.'' She gave a bleak laugh and looked at him. '' Then I guess i'm a door a thousand mean have walked through.'' ''No. You are a wall, a stone wall, four feet thick and a hundred feet high, I can't get over you all by myself, but I keep trying.

But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

Such an image of one's god becomes a final obstruction, one's ultimate barrier. You hold on to your own ideology, your own little manner of thinking, and when a larger experience of God approaches, an experience greater than you are prepared to receive, you take flight from it by clinging to the image in your mind. This is known as preserving your faith.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.