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A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause. -- Ira C. Eaker
coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body. -- Betsy Sholl
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel. -- Leon Botstein
Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do. -- Laozi
One naked star has waded through The purple shallows of the night, And faltering as falls the dew It drips its misty light. -- James Whitcomb Riley
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
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour. -- Maya Angelou
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying. -- Voltaire
I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
The safety of the country is at stake. . . . We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat. . . . No faltering can be tolerated today. -- Joseph Joffre
For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength. -- John Armstrong
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
The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Americas health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care. -- Paul Gillmor
Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul. -- Henry Van Dyke
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
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 hooks
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 waited 'til they could afford it. -- Richard Armour
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom. -- Ayn Rand
Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
As long as we're together, that's how we'll be. No trembling. No faltering. We're unstoppable. -- Richelle Mead
To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure. -- Eric Liu
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
Wherever his faltering mind,unsteadily wanders,he should restrain itand bring it under self-controlKrishna, the mind is faltering,violent, strong, and stubborn; I find it as difficultto hold as the wind." -- Vikram Seth
What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right. -- Michelle Franklin

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