Stumbling Quotes - Page 8

• Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

  Sandra Bullock

  Failing, Bases

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• I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.

  Stephen King

  Book, House, Way

  Stephen King (1989). “The Stephen King companion”

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• The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Block, Struggle, Mind

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob”, p.107, Convergent Books

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• I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a couple of weeks.

  Roger Corman

  Couple, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Block, Pride, Zion

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• What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

  Mother Teresa

  Block, Rocks, Steps

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.113, New World Library

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• My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Darkness, Intelligence

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Jobs, War

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Grey de Wilton, October 3, 1873.

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• When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

  Randall Cobb

  Funny, Boxing, Faces

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• America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Attitude, Father

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• Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Block, Pride, Zion

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• Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Thinking, Poetry

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet's relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Believe, Moving, Reality

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• Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

  James Dyson

  Great Inventions, Next, Moments

  "No innovator's dilemma here: in praise of failure" by James Dyson, www.wired.com. April 8, 2011.

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• I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Block, Knowledge Of God, Wonder

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (1981). “A cry for mercy: prayers from the Genesee”, Doubleday Books

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• This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.

  Roger Angell

  Yankees, Perfection, Half

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• Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them managed to regain their feet and made it to the water. But many of them never made it and were left behind, their feet drumming in blinding pain on the overheated pavements amidst the rubble, until there came one last convulsing shudder from the smoking 'thing' on the ground, and then no further movement.

  Martin Caidin

  Children, Pain, Fall

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• We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.

  Joan Ryan

  Dark, Thinking, Rooms

  Joan Ryan (2009). “The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.

  Forrest Gander

  Reading, Character, Feelings

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• People are stumbling over the simplest things. Take, for instance, that word believeth. You would think that was plain enough for anybody, but all my life I have heard people say, 'I have always believed, and yet I am not saved.' It does not say, 'Whosoever believeth the Bible, or creeds, or even the gospel story,' but it does say, 'Whosoever believeth in him.' What is it to believe in Him? It means to put your soul's confidence in Him, to trust in Him, God's blessed Son.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Believe, Blessed

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• Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Spiritual, Block

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• America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger - not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Country, Determination

  Gerald R. Ford's address to the state conference of the Order of DeMolay in Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 7, 1968.

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• Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Fall, Love Is, Doors

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• The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.

  Chandra Wilson

  Growing Up, Block, Doe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ultimately, success is not measured by first-place prizes. It's measured by the road you have traveled: how you have dealt with the challenge and the stumbling blocks you've encountered along the way.

  Nicole Haislett

  Success, Block, Challenges

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