Tripping Quotes

• High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.

  Scotty Bowman

  Funny, Fighting, Hockey

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• Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

  Christian Wiman

  Garden, Religion, Backyards

  Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.147, Copper Canyon Press

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• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Journey

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies.

  Calvin Miller

  Lying, Gold, Treasure

  Calvin Miller (2011). “Letters to a Young Pastor”, p.12, David C Cook

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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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• They call it 'falling in love' because it's less like stepping and more like tripping. Tripping is the part where you're still trying to remain upright

  Tammara Webber

  Falling In Love, Trying, Stills

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.88, Tammara Webber

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• It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Mistake, Fall, Would Be

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• Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.52, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of but I never ever trip, just peace, happiness and love.

  Drake

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Travel, Fun

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• Once you accept that we're all imperfect it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

  Paloma Faith

  Mistake, Acceptance, Imperfection

  "Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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• You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Strong, Hate, Stupid

  "Theft of Swords". Book by Michael J. Sullivan, November 3, 2011.

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• Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ego, Inspire

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• Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

  Slash

  Guitar, Self, Expression

  "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

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• People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

  Martin Yan

  Inspirational, Travel, Views

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• I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love

  Traci Lords

  Sublime, Sound, Feels

  Song: Sunshine

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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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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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• ... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Race, Two

  Brenda Ueland (1939). “Me”

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• No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

  Honore de Balzac

  Dog, Art, Wind

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• There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Inspirational, Travel, Carpe Diem

  Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing”, p.16

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• And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

  Pico Iyer

  Inspirational, Best Love, Travel

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

  Jodi Picoult

  Forever, Hem, Littles

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.721, Simon and Schuster

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• Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Behinds, Fronts

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