Impediment Quotes

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

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.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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.

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.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.