Stumble Upon Quotes

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

  Lawrence Block

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

  Janet Echelman

  Wonderful, Something New, Ifs

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• Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Voice, Sometimes, Irresistible

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You won't hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg - unless I stumble upon some Hennessy.

  Snoop Dogg

  Song, Alcohol, Hennessy

  "Playboy Interview: Snoop Dogg". Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. October 1995.

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• Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Decision, Mind

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.22

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• I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

  Cass McCombs

  Rap, Guitar, Long

  "Cass McCombs: Cagey singer-songwriter coughs up a few words". Interview with Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. November 22, 2007.

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• Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.

  Paula Rinehart

  Paula Rinehart (2005). “Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?

  Slavenka Drakulic

  Men, Stories

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• The medics generally see the worst of the worst. They see everything. They're working on their friends, and they're working on their enemy. The person that was just firing at them, trying to kill them, five minutes ago, if an Army medic stumbles upon him and he's still alive, he just goes to save his life.

  Brendan Fehr

  Army, Enemy, Trying

  "Brendan Fehr Talks THE NIGHT SHIFT, Research for the Role, ROSWELL 15th Anniversary, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!

  Michael Palin

  Beautiful, Writing, Men

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• The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

  Kristen Stewart

  Plans

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• He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Judging, Taste

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• You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

  Robbie Robertson

  Waiting, Heritage

  "Robbie Robertson: Native-American experience in music". www.cnn.com. July 6, 1999.

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• Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there’s not enough time to get everything done that you’re convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done.

  Andy Stanley

  Home, Organization, Discipline

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• One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.

  Willa Cather

  Happiness, Lucky, World

  "Willa Cather in Europe". Book by Willa Cather, 1956.

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• A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Dog, Pain, Mistake

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Monologue of a Dog”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.

  Charles de Lint

  Cutting, Desert, Forests

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• To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Spring, Fall, Rivers

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• Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Years, Found

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• If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

  George Washington

  Country, Paper, Body

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• Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Self, Snakes

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• The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

  Jack White

  Secret, Planning, Destination

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• A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Murder Mysteries, Intuition, Littles

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• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  Walter Lippmann

  Class, Diversity, Support

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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