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The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace,…

— Frances Trollope

Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with…

— Shannon Hale

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

— Leon Botstein

“True forgiveness for me has been and is a progression of faltering baby steps through a storm of flying debris.”

— Gwendolyn M. Plano

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason.…

— Ayn Rand

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

— Charlie Trotter

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

— Eric Liu

coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

— Betsy Sholl

As long as we’re together, that’s how we’ll be. No trembling. No faltering. We’re unstoppable.

— Richelle Mead

It was a sunny day, I was carrying a child in a white dress to be christened. The path to the church led up…

— Sophie Scholl

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

— Maya Angelou

A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.

— Ira C. Eaker

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

— Alain Badiou

“No Life is led by without faltering.”

— Anonymous

Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth.…

— Leonid Andreyev