Faltering Quotes

Americas health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

Paul Gillmor

Country, Doctors, Years

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At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

Leon Botstein

Education, Running, College

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There will be mistakes and there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See the challenges in your life and accept them and embrace them.

Dominique Dawes

Life, Mistake, Acceptance

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When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Dream, May, Way

"Fictional character: Dracula". TV Series "Dracula" ("A Whiff of Sulfur", 2013), www.imdb.com. 2013–2014.

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Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul.

Henry Van Dyke

Success, Wise, Strong

Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

Charlie Trotter

Failing

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So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend.

Homer

Winning, Men, Self

Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.284, Penguin

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

Winston Churchill

Leadership, Jobs, Military

Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

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Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

Laozi

Tasks, Rewards, Claims

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Some of the memories were not clear - -dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin.

Stephenie Meyer

Baby, Memories, Flower

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I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Feet, Obsession, Obsessed

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The bride, white of hair, is stooped over her cane Her faltering footsteps need guiding. While down the church aisle, with wan toothless smile, The groom in a wheelchair comes riding. And who is this elderly couple you ask? You'll find, when you've closely explored it, That here is that rare, most conservative pair, Who waited 'til they could afford it.

Richard Armour

Couple, Hair, Elderly

Richard Willard Armour, “Too Have And Too Old”

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Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes his, and his, in turn, becomes the lot of all who shall come after him. Drawn on inexorably by time, it is not given him to see the next rung on which his faltering foot shall fall. Bounded in knowledge, it is not given him to foretell what each succeeding hour, what each succeeding minute, shall have in store for him. In blind nescience, in an agony of foreboding, in a whirl of hopes and fears, he completes the cycle of an iron destiny.

Leonid Andreyev

Fall, Destiny, Men

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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

Alain Badiou

Philosophy, Views, Philosopher

Alain Badiou (2015). “Theoretical Writings”, p.113, Bloomsbury Publishing

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A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.

Ira C. Eaker

Causes, Assault, Vigorous

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The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

Maya Angelou

Encouragement, Heart, Needs

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.40, Random House

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The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg.

P. G. Wodehouse

Father, Humorous, Eggs

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

Voltaire

Crush, Voice, Knowing

Voltaire (2003). “Candide”, p.16, Bantam Classics

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I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.

Bell Hooks

Believe, Mean, Racism

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Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to have familial love be as important as romantic love, and to show that love can go through fire and darkness - not unchanged, because experiences like that change everyone - but never faltering

Sarah Rees Brennan

Children, Fun, Book

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It was a sunny day, I was carrying a child in a white dress to be christened. The path to the church led up a steep slope, but I held the child in my arms firmly and without faltering. Then suddenly my footing gave way ... I had enough time to put the child down before plunging into the abyss. The child is our idea. In spite of all obstacles it will prevail.

Sophie Scholl

Children, Ideas, White

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I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action. And I want, in those silent, somehow faltering times, to be with someone who knows, or else alone. I want to reflect everything about you, and I never want to be too blind or too ancient to keep your profound wavering image with me. I want to unfold. I don't want to be folded anywhere, because there, where I'm folded, I am a lie.

Maggie Stiefvater

Lying, Moving, Dark

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Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with his hands, forming their size and shape from the air. "They were yellow, and smallish, and had lots of petals." "Thank you," she said. "They were beautiful.

Shannon Hale

Beautiful, Flower, Air

Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.187, A&C Black

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As long as we’re together, that’s how we’ll be. No trembling. No faltering. We’re unstoppable.

Richelle Mead

Long, Together, Unstoppable

Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.191, Penguin

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