Stumbled Quotes
108 quotes by 99 authors
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Then he reached up and tore my shirtfront open. "Not much to see, is there?" I said, struggling to talk with a crushed windpipe. "I…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton…
— Lori Wilde
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The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd,…
— John Green
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Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might…
— Paul Auster
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Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must…
— Vera Nazarian
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Almost halfway down the aisle, she saw someone she wasn't expecting, and she almost stumbled on her satin heels. Kingsley Martin stood at the end…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere…
— William Shakespeare
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Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes…
— Ben Aaronovitch
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I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and…
— Paullina Simons
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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
— Arthur Golden
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There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune." "You'll have to risk it...and so will…
— Rick Riordan
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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness.…
— Brennan Manning
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This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped…
— Brennan Manning
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I — I mean," Kate stumbled on, "that with us there is a time past and time present, and time future, and with your gods…
— Elizabeth Marie Pope
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Still sitting, he reached out and pulled me toward him. We stayed there, looking at each other, his hand still wrapped in my shirt hem,…
— Kelley Armstrong
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And then I got to my feet and stumbled toward the door again. And got halfway there before I realized I was naked. Of course…
— Karen Chance
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She watched him stop to pat the mayor on the back. He stumbled a little in the crowd, and his left hand disappeared ever so…
— Ally Carter
Who Wrote These Stumbled Quotes
99 authors contributed a total of 108 Stumbled Quotes, led by these top contributors: