Stumble Over Quotes

#1. That child would stumble over the pattern in a rug.

Maya Angelou

#2. The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.

Evariste Galois

#3. Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

Confucius

#4. To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

Mark Epstein

#5. I wish my prose to be transparent-I don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.

V.S. Naipaul

#6. I object in the strongest possible terms to the fact that the instant we stumble over possibly the most important thing anybody's ever found anywhere ever, the first thing SC does is snap into Full-Scale Raving Paranoia mode and apply this M32 total-secrecy-or-we'll-pull-your-plugs-out-baby

Anonymous

#7. 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

#8. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Winston S. Churchill

#9. Extraverts, in other words, often stumble over themselves. They can talk too much and listen too little, which dulls their understanding of others' perspectives. They can fail to strike the proper balance between asserting and holding back, which can be read as pushy and drive people away.*

Daniel H. Pink

#10. Burning in a hot tunnel of dismay, my humiliation complete as I shake without reason and stumble over words and have nothing to say about my 'illness' which anyway amounts only to knowing that there's no point in anything because I'm going to die.

Sarah Kane

#11. People stumble over the truth from time to time,
but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston S. Churchill

#12. Don't stumble over something behind you.

Seneca The Younger

#13. Why writers stumble over words when talking? Because we have so much to say, our mouths can't keep up with our brains.

Ksenia Anske

#14. At every turn I took, I prayed that I would not stumble over her body. Every time I didn't, it gave me hope that she was still alive.

James Patterson

#15. Huntin too hard for the truth ain't a good idea, y'know," he added. "By the time you stumble over it, it ain't the truth no more. Unless there's death in it. I reckon death is about as close to truth as a man can come.

Peter Matthiessen

#16. We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

#17. Men sometimes stumble over the truth, but often pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing had happened

Winston S. Churchill

#18. Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Marilyn French

#19. Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Gertrude Stein

#20. We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

William Arthur Ward

#21. Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

Ann Landers

#22. We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

William Arthur Ward

#23. When you stumble, keep walking,
when a door closes, keep knocking,
when you win, stand tall
and always remember,
God is sovereign over all.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

Franz Kafka

#25. All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

Homer

#26. It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#27. If you think there's a god, then there is, and if you don't, then there isn't. At least while we stumble around in the dark during our mortal life, that is. We'll find out the answer for sure when it's over, and if we don't, well, we'll never know that we didn't.

Anthony Bjorklund

#28. For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#29. I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach churns and then bubbles over, burning my throat as acrid yellow acid spills from my lips in frothy discomposure. It splatters the pavement like a spray of blood.

Rebecca Clare Smith

#30. Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. 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.

Jamie Dimon

#32. With all those stars in the sky, why isn't there enough light for us to see by? We stumble like blinded sheep.'
'As you can see, it is clouding over. The stars can't pierce the gloom; they just wait it out. That isn't the stars fault. It is their custom to stay heavenly.

Gregory Maguire

#33. Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

Sharon Salzberg