There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.
humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle
Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.
We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.
To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.
Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.
Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
