Tripping Quotes

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Stripping for cash is yet another of my many talents

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

Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.

Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

[When to have a facelift:] If you're tripping over your neck.

I have an incredible talent for tripping everywhere. And I find that rather boring. Tripping and walking out of my shoes; I do it all the time when I am out at work. I'm a bit clumsy.

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

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

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

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

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

Hollywood is tripping over its own feet.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Felt my heartbeat falter, hesitate, then stumble awkwardly forward, tripping on the next beat, then the next, faster and faster until each one tumbled into the other like the drumroll of dominoes crashing together. Funny how time stands still when death is imminent.

I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of a song that I was starting on stage.