Stumbling Quotes

181 quotes by 164 authors

Stumbling is not falling. — Malcolm X
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used… — Danica McKellar
That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the… — John Podhoretz
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A… — Erich Maria Remarque
New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly… — Jerry Saltz
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a… — Eudora Welty
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. — Margaret Mitchell
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part… — Betty Smith
I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the… — Madeleine L'Engle
The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of… — George Saunders
If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they canâ€™t imagine a different world, they… — Rita Dove
It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing… — Gary L. Blackwood
At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then… — Chelsea Handler
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. — Gustave Flaubert
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt
She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs,… — Jack London
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and… — Oscar Wilde
Look, I need to tell you something,' I continued. The words came stumbling out of me. 'I couldnt stand it if...I dont want you to---'… — Rick Riordan

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