#tumble

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#civilization #down #everywhere #fall #freedom

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#civilization #confident #down #everywhere #fall

Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that. ↗

— Tom Mann

#al #al gore #bill #bradley #gore

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#darkness #enlightened #even #fall #fallen

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#i #just #know #live #living

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ↗

— Anais Nin

#defeat #endure #known #life #lose

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#economic #economic policies #failure #fear #gate

You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble. ↗

— Ron Paul

#behind #happen #how #knows #maybe

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is. ↗

— Pat Roberts

#full #grenades #hand #i #partisan

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#actually #back #control #decisions #few