Quotes with stumble

  • Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
  • 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.

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  • Bill Dedman Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Adam Ferguson 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.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Mary Caroline Richards It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Charles F. Kettering Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Winston Churchill Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Winston Churchill Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Emilie Cady Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
    Emilie Cady
     
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bob Marley Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
    so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you
    Judge Not (single, 1961) Song Lyrics
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Lord George Byron Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Walter Lippmann 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.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • William Arthur Ward To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Merton We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • William Shakespeare Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Roger Smith You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.
    Roger Smith
     
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