Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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
It seems we have come up to a mental stumbling block. Last year when we won 20 matches consecutively there was a confidence in the team and we did not care what target was we had to aim for or defend. We did it successfully. That confidence has to be regained.
Vincent Barnes
We'll make a steppingstone out of a stumbling block.
Linda Osten
It was a way to throw a stumbling block in front of them. But it's really a technicality. I can't in good conscience tell them they can't. It's just not fair.
Bob Buckley
Japanese banks are reporting some meaningful profit figures, Korean banks are improving their risk management techniques and in Taiwan, the regulatory regime appears to be changing for the better, although politics on the island may prove a stumbling block.
Ryan Tsang
We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.
Joey Harrington
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin
It was tough enough to back a horse in this race when both were galloping towards the finish line, but when both are stumbling it's really difficult to know which pony to pick.
Seth Jayson
I have nothing but great admiration for this gentleman . . . who's been able to withstand a lot of the foils and stumbling blocks in politics as we know them.
Oscar Peterson
We reached an agreement in September with the minister on how it should be done and we want to make sure there are no stumbling blocks.
Jannie Ferreira
In all fairness, it's like a quarterback in football. When the team wins he generally gets too much credit, and when the team loses he gets too much blame. But that's life in the big city. If you're the leader of an organization that's stumbling, you'll probably get relieved.
Randy Larsen
If there had been a proper decision to go to war last night then there would have been a drop in risk aversion but instead we are still stumbling in the dark.
Patrik Schowitz
Enterprises can't just suddenly turn over hardware to employees under that sort of scenario, so they're going to figure out how to create a secure environment. That'll be the biggest stumbling block for a lot of enterprises.
Tony Rizzo
It's a similar block of land like what you have here with some private houses on it, and that was a stumbling block for him. We would probably need to get control of the houses [in order for a deal with Sharma to take place]. We would probably need to purchase the houses.
Glenn Patton
I came out and saw the girl stumbling out of the car. I asked her if she was OK. She said yeah. She was worried that it was her mother's car.
Julie Gilbert
This was a critical win for us. Our guys were hungry. We were kind of stumbling and bumbling offensively, especially in the first half. But we gave the kind of over-the-top performance on defense that got us back on track tonight.
Dennis Felton
I don't think it will be a stumbling block. The city is supportive of the project. But, we aren't taking anything for granted.
John Bacon
Stumbling through darkness and racing through light, we have persisted in the creation of a Canadian civilization.
Adrienne Clarkson
You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.
Susan Lucci
No one including opposition leaders should be the stumbling block to the anti-corruption campaign which is gaining momentum.
Prof Kivutha Kibwana
Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....
Amber Frey
I don't know if there's any ideal team to face. But any team that comes stumbling into the playoffs would be a good one.
Dan Hamhuis
It was like discovering the Sistine chapel if you didn't know there had been a Renaissance - like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on the finger of God touching the hand of Adam.
William Saturno
The bass player came stumbling in the door. At the time, I just thought he had a shoulder wound. I didn't know he was injured so seriously.
Darien Mickens
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
Amber Frey
The QRU at the moment is stumbling from bad to worse to even worse.
Andrew Slack
In Western terms, it's like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on a Michelangelo or a Leonardo.
William Saturno
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.
Northrop Frye
The fixed line business we value at north of £20 billion, but any break-up must consider how BT's remaining assets should be broken up, ... That in itself is a major stumbling block.
Nigel Hawkins
Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.
Robert Guillaume
That's going to be the big stumbling block. The Coastal Commission has expressed resistance to any armoring. But when you compare it to other armoring that's been approved... we want to do armoring to protect private property so we can manage a habitat better to protect two (threatened) species, steelhead trout and red-legged frogs.
Frank Emerson
Sometimes it is the number of rooms (available) and sometimes it is the rate, because we need to make sure the rate is falling in line from a value perspective. So far, the biggest stumbling block is the rate.
Briana Mackey
The outlook on the economy is still subject to great uncertainty, but it's quite clear that there was no stumbling underway when the hurricanes hit.
Pierre Ellis
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
Eudora Welty
We haven?t hit any stumbling blocks at all. We are hopeful the town will support us. We think we?re doing a good thing for the town.
Reed Jackson
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