A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas Fuller

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
Hal Borland

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
Cullen Hightower

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
Annie Dillard

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Pope Paul VI

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Ralph Ransom

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Dan Rather

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
Henry Lawson

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.
Ron Livingston

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.
Margaret Carlson

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
Andre Boucourechliev

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.
Edward Whitacre, Jr.

But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.
Joe Slovo

But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.
Steve Spurrier

But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
Ed Bradley

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Marsha Sinetar

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
Billy Bob Thornton

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
Thomas J. Watson

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
Mary Garden