Fumbling Quotes

33 quotes by 31 authors

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life. — John W. Gardner
It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still… — P.J. O'Rourke
I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful… — Don Watson
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light. — Joy Williams
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me… — Cees Nooteboom
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as… — H.G. Wells
Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage. — Marshall McLuhan
We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find… — Annette Bening
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they… — Walter J. Phillips
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What… — Douglas Adams
Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But… — Albert Camus
How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we… — Wendell Berry
I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as… — Lewis Thomas
Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an… — Robert A. Heinlein
Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would… — Margaret Mitchell
humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But I'm not any better at relationships than you are. We'll find our way together, even if we're fumbling around in the dark for a… — Christine Feehan
We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion. — Isaac Marion
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling. — Robert A. Heinlein
We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light. — Lauren Oliver

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