Stumbles Quotes

47 quotes by 39 authors

Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto… — Mary Roach
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely. — Richard Savage
I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the… — Khalil Gibran
God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in… — Criss Jami
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and… — C.S. Lewis
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's… — Willa Cather
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all. — Bob Dylan
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale… — Winston Churchill
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow… — John Steinbeck
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't… — Nicole Krauss
Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are… — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could… — Theodore Roosevelt
He loves so wholly. It is his nature. He blinks, then tries to find the right response. "I-" he stumbles. "I'm so afraid, June. So… — Marie Lu
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. — Unknown Author
Where one industry stumbles, another rises up. — John Battelle
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser
Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that. — Tom Mann
Each successive phrase of our life leads toward a shared future where our climaxes, stumbles, codas, and masterpieces unravel from our dreams like a song… — Julie Rearick

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