To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
We just kind of put our foot in our mouth.
Mike Hennessey
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
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
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 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 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
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