Quotes about hurdles (16 Quotes)





    With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.

    For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.



    I wouldn't view this as any indication the company is putting itself up for sale. I think it's an indication of better corporate governance. What they are trying to show everyone is that there's not going to be any artificial hurdles to them being acquired.


    This kids a phenomenal athlete whos just beginning to mature physically and mentally. The hurdles are difficult to learn for anyone, but he picked them up just like that. We havent even worked on form yet. Hes doing it on pure athletic ability. As an indicator of what kind of ability Gary has, hes long-jumped 21-4 and run 10.7 for the 100 in practice.


    I think the main culprit is modernity itself. Modernity and beauty simply don't mix. Pragmatism and an industrial-sized busyness denigrate everything that can't squeeze out of a calculator. And the first thing to die under such circumstances is a passion for beauty. For those trying desperately to jump over moving hurdles, pursuing beauty is just foolishness.... We just don't have the time for poetry beauty isn't useful, we say, until we're in our eighties, when many finally reflect and realize that beauty was truly essential to a good life that has now slipped by.


    Despite the fact that rape victims have a formal right to legal abortion, that right was blocked by a maze of administrative hurdles and negligence and obstruction by public officials.


    Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.




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