Stumble Quotes - page 2

Her mother's humpf mixed contempt with frustration. "You just don't understand anything, do you? We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!”. (Samuel R. Delany)
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel. View quote
Tom Perrotta
A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking. View quote
Christopher Lloyd
I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person. View quote
Lev Grossman
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. View quote
Jamie Dimon
You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions. View quote
Bryan Brown
When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within. View quote
Gilberto Hernandez
For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it. View quote
Kathie Lee Gifford
You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared. View quote
Robbie Robertson
Night comes down and finds you alone In a space and time of your own, Lost in dreams in a world full of shadows.Down the street the neon light shines, Offering refuge and hope to the blind, Who stumble in with no thought of tomorrow.Yes I get lonely when the sun gets low, And I end up looking for some winner goal. Yes I should know better but I can't say no. View quote
Gerry Rafferty
Joseph Smith drifting into errors after translating the Book of Mormon, is a stumbling-block to many, but only those of very weak faith would stumble on this account. Greater abominations are recorded of David in the Bible, than is recorded to-day of Joseph Smith; but do you reject the Psalms on this account? Do you reject the Proverbs because Solomon was a polygamist? Stop and think, you who are hasty to condemn. If you desire to know whether or not the Book of Mormon is true, read the book and investigate it, for Christ has promised that he who seeks in the right way shall find the truth of all things. We are commanded to "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." (David Whitmer)
The one-legged never stumble. View quote
Ernest Bramah
The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
You let the brush take over and in a way follow its own head, and in the brush doing what it's doing, it will stumble on what one couldn't by oneself... It's essential to fracture influences in the same way that free association in psychoanalysis helps to fracture one's social self-deceptions. View quote
Robert Motherwell
This is life. People stumble and grope blindly hither and thither, wondering if they did the right thing, occasionally knocking something over and hoping no-one noticed, striving for illusory goals, addled with guilt and insecurity. View quote
John Derbyshire
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. View quote
Henry Cabot Lodge
The future's mine and it's no disgrace, cos in the end the past means nothing. I feel a little down today, and I ain't got much to say And if I stumble, catch me when I fall / 'Cause, baby, after all / You'll never forget my name. View quote
Noel Gallagher
With many misgivings, I accepted the mission to Hayti. I distrusted my qualifications for the office; but coming to me as it did, unasked, unsought, and unexpected, and with the earnest wish of the President that I would accept it in the interest of the peace, welfare, and prosperity of Hayti, I felt I could not decline it. I shall leave a comfortable house and a healthy climate, and shall probably have to occupy trying positions; but I go forth hopefully... Hayti is but a child in national life, and though she may often stumble and fall, I predict that she will yet grow strong and bright. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. View quote
Ryszard Kapuściński
It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying. View quote
Jodi Picoult
see them walking, if you dare if you call that walking stumble, stagger, fall and drag themselves along the streets of heaven. (Natalie Merchant)
I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it. View quote
George Harrison
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision. View quote
E. E. Cummings
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. View quote
Walter Lippmann