Quotes About Fumble

#1. More pre-Christmas revelers on the Friday-night Tube: girls in ludicrously tiny glittering dresses risking hypothermia for a fumble with the boy from Packaging.

Robert Galbraith

#2. In the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the silence, all of that fell away, and there was only what was here, and what was to be done.

Geoff Ryman

#3. While we mortals fumble through ambiguity, he never loses his harmony #MyExperiencewith498A

Ravi Ranjan

#4. I fumble for the return tab and quickly type as I continue my way down the catwalk.
Ned help!
Thank you, SmartText, for knowing how pressing my need for Ned is at this very moment.

Martin Leicht

#5. If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may sit down and say, 'These are critical things and maybe we need to get back in the ball.'

Joe Scarborough

#6. It's as if there's a fumble-fingered but powerful universal force at work, always trying to put wrong things right.

Stephen King

#7. I want to have a romance so grand,
it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

Sanober Khan

#8. Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.

Jimmy Johnson

#9. Writing for nobody? Impossible. You fumble, you stop. I don't even take the trouble of expressing myself so that when I reread myself I can understand whatever it was I was trying to say. Gilles will figure it out, he'll work it through.

Felix Guattari

#10. Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Margaret Weis

#11. I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities ...

Robert Frost

#12. I need to hear the words of this book - its truth, forgiveness, hope - as much as anybody." Nathaniel looked up with an apologetic smile. "I know I'm no great orator. But I ask you to bear with me as I fumble through this new duty.

Julie Klassen

#13. The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled.

Virginia Woolf

#14. Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Mark Twain

#15. They weren't bad guys, just products of a society run by men and infused with rules to leave everyone sexually frustrated. Even in marriage sex in India is often just a brief, clumsy fumble in the dark, trying not to wake up grandma who's sleeping in the same bed.

Tom Thumb

#16. Look, you do the bloody well best you can. You fumble. You make mistakes.

Hume Cronyn

#17. For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.

Simeon Rice

#18. Take bold decisions. Don't let doubts fumble decisions in your mind and make you confused over them. Pursue what you are convinced to do; else you set yourself up where you do not belong.

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. On offense, you can fumble and they still talk about you.

Clinton Portis

#20. Never let hope elude you. That is life's biggest fumble.

Robert Zuppke

#21. Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

Dante Hall

#22. Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one you attack.

Irvine Welsh

#23. Whereas what we need is to fumble around in the darkness, because that's where our lives (not necessarily all of the time, but at least some of the time, and particularly when life gets problematical for us) takes place.

John Cage

#24. You've come to understand gang violence as symptomatic of an abiding civil conflict whose proportions we can only begin to fathom; now you watch church kids fumble their fingers toward Eastside, toward Killaz.

Leslie Jamison

#25. I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you."
"And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh.
"I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences."
"And atheists?" He was still laughing.
"They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.

Heinrich Boll

#26. The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night
because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

Jodi Picoult

#27. The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt - and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.

Woody Hayes

#28. As great as it is to turn a monster caber, hit the game winning homerun, cause a fumble or clear a PR in weight over bar, there's a more amazing feeling. It's a feeling of victory ... true victory. This victory is eternal life through Jesus Christ.

Daniel McKim

#29. Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

Lou Holtz

#30. Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#31. ...To search for colours, fumble for words,
Strive to catch in earthly song
The echo of greater music,
To fail with heartbreak and give
The heartbreaks to each other with our love,
Can this be why we live?

Elizabeth Goudge

#32. We fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than the law.

Jodi Picoult

#33. Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.

Aaron Rodgers

#34. Yeah, we were in the game, until Jesus made me fumble. He hates our team.

Jeff Stilson

#35. We'd seen firsthand how the man handled a crisis. If Marcia decided suddenly to brandish a stapler in a half-threatening manner, he'd fumble with his Motorola and forget his name.

Joshua Ferris

#36. Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

John Heisman

#37. In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.

Fred Reed

#38. In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.

Christopher Guest

#39. I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me

Patrice Motsepe

#40. I'm sorry," I whisper. My cold lips fumble the words.
"Don't be." His voice is a low rumble against me, the sound carrying through my bones, clearer than any of the voices I've been hearing. "You've got nothing to be sorry for.

Amie Kaufman

#41. When the ball is on the one-yard line, never risk a fumble. Carry it over yourself.

Robert Ringer