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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare

A stumble may prevent a fall.

English Proverb

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust God, and do.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf

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

William Arthur Ward

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Charles F. Kettering

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Charles F. Kettering

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

Gertrude Stein

It's Marty's to lose and she has to stumble two or three times to lose.

John Davies

Teams like us, who haven't had as many wins, we kind of stumble a little bit to try to make some plays instead of keeping our composure as well.

Ben Troupe

You have to have an environment where your opinion is OK. Green Bay is learning how to be diverse. We were a homogenous community 20, 30 years ago. We're going to stumble a little bit, but we have to be optimistic.

Darryl Buck

If they stumble with one or two, that will make it very difficult.

Bert Hazlett

I was saying that in April, 'Don't lose sight of them,' ... The cars that are in front of us are great cars. For them to stumble, they're not going to do it to many times. If we don't make moves on our merits ... we can't really wait on them to stumble because those are cars that don't stumble.

Larry Dixon

Right now, a new business or even one that's been around for a while, has to stumble across the information.

Gary Knight

Vertex shares may not be for the faint-hearted at these price levels. However, the hepatitis C derby is just that: a race. Should Vertex not stumble or encounter unforeseen obstacles prior to approval, $35 will wind up looking like an early exit point.

Mark Augustine

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

L. Estrange

Take your time and get it right. It's an important moment. Governments that stumble in transition often have a difficult time getting their footing subsequently.

David Zussman

That takes off some of the pressure. Other than a little stumble on the (triple) flip, I was very happy.

Mira Leung

A stumble is not a fall.

Haitian Proverb

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

Old Chinese Proverb

The first stumble is really expensive. If you already have a low score and there's a delinquency, your score won't drop by as far.

Craig Watts

I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble. And sometimes you grab what's close to you and hold on as tight as you can.

The Wonder Years

In the position that we're in now, we have to be good in every game and not settle for a point. We have to go for wins every night and hope Omaha is going to stumble.

Patrick Traverse

You try to stress the importance of this game for the kids. The kids knew what it meant in league standings and if you look at our conference now, Broomfield and us have a two game pad over the closest competitor. You can afford to stumble and still have a chance. So it was definitely an important game for us.

Doug Holloway

He's drunk 50 percent of the time. I stumble and slur words.

David Connolly

It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it.

Philip Levine

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

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

Roger Smith

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Anais Nin

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Adam Ferguson

We watch the Internet all the time. It's important to see and find new things. If we stumble onto something good, we've sought people out to see if they have greater ambitions.

Matt Rice

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Lawrence Block

For Zach, it was especially nice. As the No. 1, he faces the best players in the state, week after week. So it was nice to see him step up and win four matches, without a stumble.

Dave Weisfeldt

These are the rare directors who come along, and you're lucky if you stumble across one as an actor.

Sean Penn

They didn't just stumble upon my house or my family. All we asked for is cooperation. Their lack of cooperation is disturbing.

Barbara Taylor

No, it's his feet. He's always had the skills, he hasn't always been as big. But when I first saw him as an eighth grader, his feet could move. A lot of times, eighth graders stumble around. But he moved.

Bob Newton

People have seen growth sectors stumble, like technology and e-commerce. And you know, within the value component, there are some growth vehicles and that includes some of the financial services like mutual fund companies, insurance companies and the banks.

John Kellett

It made me look like I all of a sudden stumbled upon my heritage. It's not like that. You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared. But what you need is a sign that somebody wants to share this with you.

Robbie Robertson

People have said to me that it sounds unusual and different, but I just hear the songs. That's all I'm really interested in. Writing good songs and making them sound as fresh and timeless as possible. You know, if you stumble on something new along the way that's great. But I'm not into new sounds just for the sake of it. I'm a songwriter.

Paul Weller

One of the assistant principals saw the student stumble into the alarm.

Barbara Campbell

You are going to be scrutinized very closely on that score and you need people who aren't going to stumble, especially in the current climate we've got where there's cynicism. People are watching, people are much more attentive to government and cabinet ministers.

Kathy Brock

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Now there would be a lot of people that would argue they are worth it. I would say, okay, maybe they are. But, gosh, if there's a stumble... if you're trading at more than twice your growth rate... the down side becomes horrific.

Vincent Farrell

He slept on a mattress in a wooded area. He cut down some large brush and camouflaged the area so well that it would be very difficult for somebody to stumble upon him.

Robert Perez

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

Jerry Garcia

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Sonya Boralv

We have to break sharp, ... We have to break cleanly. We can't stumble. We can't do anything. We have to have the sharpest break this horse has ever done. ... We're out there in no-man's land, and if you do make a mistake you're in deep trouble.

Steve Sherman

We're playing great now so we don't want to stumble; we want to just keep going forward. We can't be hoping for another team to knock them off. We just need to take care of our business and we'll have control of our destiny.

Erica Mckenzie