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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Benjamin Franklin

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Warren Buffett

The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.

Malaysian Proverb

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Chinese Proverb

There is only one way to retaliate, and that involves shooting yourself in the foot.

Michael Hart

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

Norma Shearer

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Plutarch

We cannot keep bad people out with a 30-foot fence.

Patty Weiss

I got off on the right foot and had a solid year.

Kurt Suzuki

About 80 percent of the casts we'd get in were for very common foot problems. Clearly there's a place for custom, but in some cases over-the-counter ones can help.

Larry Schwartz

Once you get your foot in the door, then we have 1984.

Chris Winfield

If you're taking up 4, 5, 6 foot of space, you're depriving someone else of their leisure time activity. When we get busy it is elbow to elbow.

Faye Cotner

We just shot ourselves in the foot.

Jimmy Lewis

I know his left foot didn't leave the floor.

Buddy Carlisle

He took his stick and drew a circle with about a 6-foot radius and said, 'Put it anywhere in there.'

Luc Robitaille

When they went back in there, them people in there were a foot from the ceiling on mattresses, ... They couldn't get them out.

Michael Robin

It's not fair to taxpayers to foot the bill for what we need. That's why we formed the regional board.

George Galbraith

Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get a leg up.

David Weinbaum

It's the shelter of last resort. It is about one foot above sea level.

Pete Schneider

It's giving competitors an instant foot in the door.

Brian Modoff

We wanted a place to cook, sleep, eat and work on one floor and it became apparent we couldn't do all that on an 18-foot-wide lot.

Joe Hale

Something woke her up, and she said standing right at the foot of the bed was this girl.

Jack Moyer

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

Christopher Dodd

You can't rent a building anymore for $500. Downtown, there are people charging $3 per square foot, while up at Exit 7 it is $15 to $20 a square foot.

Chris Long

Better the foot slip than the tongue.

French Proverb

Baby Boomers don't want the same two-by-three-foot stone. They want to be remembered for who they are.

Susan Little

The details of the revisions also suggest that growth is on a more sustainable footing.

Robert Subbaraman

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

John Dryden

There's not a lot of women that are 5-foot-8, sandy blonde hair with green eyes that would have that, so if that helps any.

Joyce Kesse

It could be characterized as a 1 million-square-foot condo.

Jim Mcconoughey

Now they're trying to find their footing and fit me in more. Nobody was really happy or excited by how much I'm in the early episodes, so we'll see.

Rockmond Dunbar

He's had a good week with the foot chase and the dog.

Bill Barber

If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.

Robert Altman

We shoot ourselves in the foot because we don't talk about it.

Ben Sawyer

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Francis I

He liked his job. He liked challenges; … he put his best foot forward every time. He gave his best to his family, too.

Roger Beery

Like this one here, that angel was on top of this. That's got to be seven-foot high to get that angel down.

Danny Hughes

He was lying semiconscious at the bottom of a 40-foot pit.

Steve Willsey

They'll clear something about a foot wide and consider that shoveling. Sidewalks are 5 feet wide.

Francis Lollie

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

You have to pass. You can pivot on one foot, but you can't travel.

Lukas Truckenbrod

Set not the chain of Fate upon thy foot. There is a way beyond this rolling sphere.

Muhammad Iqbal

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

W. Somerset Maugham

One reason we're talking about it now is that we've seen a decline in foot traffic downtown.

Janet Jacobs

The fire department would like 50-foot wide streets but you don't design your city around the fire department.

Ken Golden

That was so important to get off on the right foot.

Ryan Smyth

She almost fell down. Another girl got close to her and clipped the back of her foot a little bit.

Bill Tilden

Your old track was one foot out of level.

Thomas Crabtree

He's chanced his arm with his left foot.

Trevor Brooking

It allows people to explore. If you were to disclose, it would put some people on a more competitive [footing].

Christopher Morris

At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.

Aaron Neville

He had the homes up on pedestals with no dirt around them for backyards. You couldn't drive down the driveway and into the garage because there was something like a 6 or 8 foot difference.

Loren Ritter

Staunton is a walking community. The best way to explore the city is by foot and people are doing just that.

Sergei Troubetzkoy

That was a good way to start. That got us off on the right foot.

Judy Dean

AARP does not have the right to expect taxpayers to foot the bill to help advance its political agenda.

John Carlisle

That was the difference. Our defense gave them problems and it was especially encouraging for us to rebound the way we did considering they have to 6-foot-3 girls.

Cody Butler

My foot peg just clipped him a bit. I'm not worried about his car - it was like, I was a foot peg away from death. But all's well that ends well. I'm still alive.

Ryan Reynolds

First, we want him to be healthy, and if he's athletic, that's great. But we always kid around that if he's a 7-foot chess player, that's fine.

Casey Daigle

We want to keep our foot on the gas.

Paul Bush

We haven't run across a team yet that has the foot speed that we have.

Duane Davis

But in fairness, he has not put a foot wrong, and I am struggling a bit still with my ankle injury.

Leon Haslam

We shot ourselves in the foot. We can't do that against a team like that.

Sebastien Caron

It takes some adjustment. You want to run as fast as you can with a 15-foot pole.

Mark Carrick

It's pretty nice to have a 6-(foot)-4 guy who can run a 4.5 out in front of you.

Willie Ponder

We are all so stoked. It wasn't 18-25-foot Elbow, but . . .

Kevin Kirby's

Who wouldn't want to be here? It's a great location. There's so much foot traffic.

Dr. Robert Greene

There was a big foot print on the back door. They kicked it in.

Kathy Lerew

It's a good starting place. It's a chance to get my foot in the door. I'm really excited.

Tina Donahue

They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.

John Paul Stevens

H-P is on solid footing now.

Vivienne Hsu

Come together at the foot of the cross.

Bob Fisher

There is an excitement to be the first to do anything. Whenever you are the first, you want to put your best foot forward.

Bertrand Berry

He's tidied up some of his foot movements before delivery and is now looking to be more on the back foot than the front foot as he was.

Sir Richard Hadlee

We'll put our best foot forward. We feel very capable of taking that mission.

Pat Mcelgunn

FEDC is being put on solid footing and will be effective.

Jim Whitaker

And in the parking lot are the two suspects. As the officer approached, the suspects fled on foot.

Shannon Sessions

There's still a lot of confusion about what that 25-foot distance meant.

Roger Valdez

[He] put his foot in his mouth, and then we told him, 'As long as you have your foot in your mouth, take a big bite out of your toe.' And he backed down.

Alfred E. Newman

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets.

Spiro T. Agnew

We need to be on a wartime footing. Innovation comes out of crisis.

Bruce Gellin

I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.

George Grossmith

That could have crippled the airport right at Christmas. Aircraft could have landed with a 1,300 foot-ceiling and then not been able to take off.

Rick Griffith

You couldn't draw it up any better. I got all of it, but just got it on the ice. It's a shot that I've got to make. I've got to know to get that a foot off the ice.

Kurtis Foster

It?s hard to conceal a 150-foot pole and not make it look ridiculous.

Jeremy Pate

Oh, his foot was broken. We had to shoot the horse.

Larry Ancelet

I have a slight problem in my foot so I wanted to use as little energy as possible to be fit for the final.

Tatyana Lebedeva

We want to be sure we have the ability to finish it. I want to know there's the foot soldiers to get it done.

George Morgan

It was close, ... They were on the 1-foot-line. They just kept hanging in.

Jim Hoover

The Brazilian economy is moving forward like someone driving a car with their foot on the brake.

Guido Mantega

We'll use it to get into areas we can't get into with our trucks or by foot. You can go on mud, through sand. You can drive it in water. You can cross the river on this.

Brian O'green

Yesterday he was talking about how some of the guys might be on boats, some might be on army trucks and some on foot.

Joe Peel

We all had our foot on the line. We all believed in that line and none of us have gone back.

Michael Mcclure

It's a little different to me playing a 7-foot guy and Brian being undersized as well.

Mark Zoller

The shoe is on the other foot. There is nothing to go after in Europe now.

David Pritchard

He's the all-American boy. Six-foot-three, blond-haired, blue-eyed. A race driver. What else can they want?

Bill Frye

In a 100-foot stretch of yard, you can't put trees that close together.

Robin Sutton

I can't see the cause of the lameness at the moment and we won't really know until the vet has seen him but it could be something in his foot.

Robert Alner

What's exciting is that diesel will be on equal footing with gasoline in this country for the first time in a long time.

John Millett

If it bounced to any other kid on their team, they probably don't run down and hit that 10-foot floater. But she did.

Jeff Knoy

She is 17 foot tall.

Clem Metz

It's a market that is trying to find its footing.

Nicholas Buss

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

Larry Wall

I think the baby will be born for November sweeps. When that kid comes out, he's going to be 5-foot-2.

Rick Hearst

We had them on the ropes a couple of times and he'd hit a 30-foot bank shot (just before the shot clock ran out).

Buster Harvey

I told coach to put him back in. One foot, no foot, zero foot. Doesn't matter.

Leon Powe

If Heather goes out at the beginning, she has so much foot speed, no one is going to catch her.

Tamra Strano

We shot ourselves in the foot, too many penalties.

Valentin Montemayor Jr

The move means that tea culture has set foot in China's higher education.

Song Shaoxiang

That really put us on the same competitive footing as cable.

Robert Mercer

The wet-foot, dry-foot policy has no foundation in law.

Ira Kurzban

You've really got to be popular to be homecoming queen at 6-foot-3.

Percy Wade

Amanda is 5-foot-8 and strong. She hits with power and is a very good defensive catcher.

Debbie Norman

The suspect is believed to be on foot in a wooded area in Bartow County.

John Bankhead

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

Douglas Wilson

We have two receivers who are 6-foot-4, and 6-foot-5. We just don't have the depth we had before at receiver.

Tim Pierson

They like to put their toe on the bridge before they put their foot on the bridge.

John Mason Brown

My impression so far is there's not a lot of foot traffic going by.

Angela Allen

The foot problems were really getting to be worrisome in the old enclosure. I'm confident we've seen the end of that.

David Baker

We've just got to stop shooting ourselves in the foot early.

Reuben Droughns

Every square foot of (remaining) land is spoken for.

John O'meara

It's kind of a more exciting experience with about a foot or more of snow around the springs.

Logan Dance

With this region being as strong as it is, it was important for us to get off on the right foot.

Jared Ingersol

He's a big boy at 6-foot-4, 210 pounds, and runs a 4.9 40-meter dash.

Tim Pierson

It's come to an end. We're on sure footing for the 2006 budget.

Mayor Damian Goulbourne

There are no pet stores that sell 9-foot sharks.

John Hewitt

All this means. . . we have a really solid footing.

David Ritchie

She put her foot on the gas. I didn't know what to do.

Theresa Walker

I drove by and I saw these two 8-foot tall stumps ... and thought, that's what I'm looking for.

Frank Hyman

I was chomping at the bit to get in, ... We battled hard and it was a fair result. It starts us off on the right foot.

Brian Ching

The ball doesn't spring off your foot when it's cold. You want to get used to that before you get out there.

Jason Hanson

His work since then has been terrific. He hasn't put a foot wrong.

Robbie Laing

The eagle was one of the best shots I have ever hit. I had 242 yards to the flag and I hit a five wood to a foot.

Simon Dyson

I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's going to be up all night.

Steven Wright

We are repairing the road on a war footing.

Vijay Batra

You see how the economy is developing in your particular area -- retail is growing in this area -- then you have to get your foot in the door and work your way up.

Matthew Wilkins

It was probably a 380 (foot) shot.

Joe Archuleta

I have a 20,000-square-foot facility down there that I eventually want to add a cold storage (facility) to.

Mark Graziano

Andre Nel has a stress fracture in his foot and is coming home on Friday.

Chris Day

We were pretty much the best deal in town per square foot.

Chuck Webber

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10.

Brian Young

I am happy to be in but I was never anxious about it. I think this is the obvious team, I was more anxious about my foot.

Loretta Harrop

And at the foot of our new bridge is a place that makes Cuban sandwiches.

Jeff Jensen

We kept shooting ourselves in the foot.

Jeff White

Beyond everything else, no ball ever had a better experience than when it was at his left foot.

Jorge Valdano

We have neither a congressionally declared war, nor a nation on wartime footing, nor an enemy who has the capacity to destroy us by invasion.

Hodding Carter

I knew if I didn't get hit, I could sneak my foot in.

Dwayne Jarrett

Many of her goals were with her left foot. And she's not left-footed.

Brent Walston

He (Fawell) felt the government had just put a foot on his throat.

Dan K. Webb

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

Thomas Paine

You have to be careful what you do because the shoe may be on the other foot someday.

Jody Gage

We just kind of put our foot in our mouth.

Mike Hennessey

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Bible

Through that theory, there is every incentive to go back. The 10,000-foot view is it would be very difficult to be illegal and be here.

Will Adams

We worked hard, we put our best foot forward, and we'll move on.

George Baker

Man, he's 7-foot-6. You don't really appreciate it until you see it in person.

Trent Plaisted

There's a complete distaste in the Western mind for even seeing that chicken foot.

Grace Young

We shot ourselves in the foot several times.

Bob Hayes

It gets us started. It gets our foot in the door.

Carol Olson

Parents are contributing as much as they can. They just don't have the means to foot the whole bill.

Monique Manigat

I had a major foot injury and that just finished things.

John Godina

And the new strap is like lingerie. It's nylon and caresses the foot around the ankle.

Sergio Rossi

His foot had been bleeding profusely the entire time.

Lee Matthews

There will be a hole in the snow, you can see. People can go dig their balls out. They don't have to try to hit it out of three-foot hole.

John Lacrosse

If you have one foot in a bucket of ice and another in a bucket of boiling water, on average you're perfectly comfortable. In that sense, we're very comfortable with inflation right now.

Anirvan Banerji

The constant pressure when you slam your foot into the ground when you bowl must have done the damage.

Andre Nel

It's just a nice foot soak.

Pat King

We'll be encouraging runners to watch their footing and try not to twist their ankle.

Katie Watts

The idea is to get people in with the romance, ... so I kept one foot in the old camp.

Richard Curtis

It costs us probably a third per square foot to run as the other building.

Kay Runge

It seems like every time I get a foot ahead, I get two steps backward.

David Jarvis

Our five-foot-high Lego Man was stolen.

Richard Ryan

We took our foot off the gas.

Sammy Mejia

The fire doubled back on them. They tried to retreat on foot, but were overtaken.

Mark Blythe

If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.

Turkish proverb

We shoot ourselves in the foot a little bit. We've got to stop doing that eventually.

Rajeev Madhavan

Everything should be paid for by hotel investors. Let them foot the bill.

Jim Brewer

Gavin is extremely long and is legitimately 6-foot-9. And he can get up and down the floor.

Tom Saltzstein

He'll be in the mix again this year. He already jumped 6-foot-2 at Hillhouse.

Joe Bienasz

We don't have to wait for a 110-foot-tree to grow perfectly straight.

Frank Poirot

They had a chance to put their foot on our neck and that's what they did. They're a well-coached team and they did a great job.

Lebron James

Maybe so, maybe I have. I choose my battles a little bit more now. But on the stuff that's important, I still put my foot down.

Norris Ashley

I hurt my (right) foot when I fouled off a ball (a few days ago). I couldn't run.

Aaron Miles

The museum would have one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

Gordon Huether

You could tell he was anxious. He was stomping his foot.

Jennifer Jackson

We're suffering from the 'shoot yourself in the foot' syndrome.

Lem Elway

We can't forget about the silent tax payer that will never set foot in the facility.

Nancy Carroll

The 40,000 square-foot expansion underway will help us deal with that growth.

Steve Harrison

It's like fire burning through 30- to 40-foot-tall grass.

Bill Armstrong

Ain't no telling how much we could've won by without the mistakes. We shot ourselves in the foot.

Jamarcus Russell

We're shooting ourselves in the foot with this thing.

Phoenix Coyotes

Gore is really handicapped by this and it makes it more difficult for him to put his best foot forward.

Andrew Kohut

If you are on foot, you will be checked. If you are a fan and you have a ticket, you need your ticket with you.

Neil Sullivan

I just wish he had a 6-foot frame. He'd be on everybody's college list.

Marvin Bridges

We'd dive to 200-foot depths without wetsuits.

Jim Stewart

This time the shoe was on the other foot.

Jim Pankovits

It's not the stairs so much as we're afraid he might lose his footing and fall and that could do damage that would have to be repaired again.

Ann Marie Ferrarese

It's like I get a foot in both the camps.

Paula Spencer

They're telling me I need to have a 25 foot setback and there's no room for that.

John Base