Stumble Quotes

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. (Winston Churchill)
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. View quote
Adam Ferguson
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers someone else is judging you. View quote
Bob Marley
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. View quote
Democritus
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. View quote
William Shakespeare
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. View quote
Charles Kettering
Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. View quote
Ieyasu Tokugawa
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? (Yann Martel)
If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? View quote
Yann Martel
To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called - and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late! View quote
Spider Robinson
I stumble through a carnival of horrors. View quote
Anne Rice
Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it. View quote
Roger Ebert
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here. View quote
Macy Gray
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold. View quote
Joseph Campbell
What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons. View quote
Hans Blix
Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don't portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope. View quote
James A. Michener
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. (Confucius)
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. View quote
Louis Sachar
The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough. View quote
Colum McCann
Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, It's okay, I'm from New Jersey. I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in, "Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.”. View quote
Paul Rudnick
You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out. View quote
Ned Vizzini
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