Quotes for All
To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure. Eric Liu
The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace, which is delicious in autumn, is most tormenting in the spring. Frances Trollope
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
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
coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body. Betsy Sholl
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 … Read more
Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share–maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded–never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, “save” faltering marriages or produce heirs. Anne Cassidy
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 … Read more
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
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln