Tumbling Quotes

The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

Stumbling isn't falling.

Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.

If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.

I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.

It's much easier to become a hacker now. It was a private community before and you had to find your way in, like tumbling down a rabbit hole. Today, there are all-in-one desktops fully equipped with tools pre-built into the operating system, all related to hacking. They are all very powerful tools and free to download.

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.

Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power. From the murky waters of New Orleans to the scarred psyches of our own image-obsessed existence, Exposed! is the last headline we get to read before reality comes tumbling down.

My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

Tumbling has always been my favorite.

These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.