Best Stumble Upon Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

Ifs Wonderful Something New Stumble Upon

“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.”

Ifs Men Mind Firsts Made Reason Courses Chance Decision Rejects Stumble Upon

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“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.”

Long Grew Grew Up Long Time Resources Raised Guitar Radio Rap Suburbs Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Stumble Upon

Author:Cass McCombs

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

Stumble Upon

Book:Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

Source: Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

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

Men Stories Stumble Upon

Author:Slavenka Drakulic

“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.”

Ifs Trying Persons Stills Enemy Five Alive Minutes Worst Army Five Minutes Firing Stumble Upon Medics

Author:Brendan Fehr

“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!”

Men Writing Persons Beautiful Young Answers Scene Young Man Young Women Castles Stumble Upon

Author:Michael Palin

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

Plans Stumble Upon

Author:Kristen Stewart

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

Song Alcohol Stumble Upon Hennessy

Author:Snoop Dogg

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

Sometimes Voice Irresistible Stumble Upon

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“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.”

Mind Whole Class Support Diversity Picks Prejudice Social Justice Tendencies Representatives Casual Sample Stumble Upon

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“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.”

World Ends Happiness Hours Chance Conditions Divine Lucky Forecasts Hold Fast Stumble Upon

Author:Willa Cather

“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.”

Source: Monologue of a Dog

“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.”

Stills States Whole Natural Cutting Spread Forests Desert Stumble Upon

Author:Charles de Lint

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

“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.”

“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.”

Years Success Found Accidents Stumble Upon Madame Curie

Author:B. C. Forbes

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

Ifs Country Body Nations Paper Economics Crash Founding Our Founding Fathers Us Founding Fathers Stumble Upon

Author:George Washington

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

Love Self Happens Literature Self Love Narcissism Snakes Creeps Narcissist Stumble Upon

Author:Lord Byron

“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.”

Ifs Knows Secret Plans Planning Destination Where You Are Where You Are Going Stumble Upon

Author:Jack White

“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.”

“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.”

Needs Done Enough Problem Home Perfect Too Much Discipline Demand Organization Let Me Pressure Folks Convinced Schedules Enough Time Not Enough Time Stumble Upon

Author:Andy Stanley

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

Waiting Heritage Stumble Upon

Author:Robbie Robertson

“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.”

Knows Men Reason Chance Judging Taste Stumble Upon

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld