Block Quotes
...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.
Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls.
If Cargo is a catalyst to spark policy, that would be great. The more we're able to use it as an educational tool, the more it's a building block in youths' minds and peoples' minds to enact policy.
At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.
Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were.
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.
Your field report might be the reason someone detoured six blocks, say, on their way to the chiropractor.
The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.
Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.
I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life.
As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.
Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.
The people blocking buses in Murrieta, California, didn't come from radical groups, they were everyday Americans who were perfectly willing to frighten those children
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.
AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.
When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.
By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
I have to go out there and show scouts and GMs and coaches just what I can do: Run as fast as I can and try to show them I have great hands and good technique where I can be on the line blocking.
In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.
I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.
How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.
My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.
If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.
Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.
You know the block was ill as a youngster Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster
If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go.
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.
Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.
Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.
I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.
a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.
I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.
I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.