Faltering Quotes
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This island rock in space turns flowering endlessly To peaks of cloud still mounting where you took Your last high passage and your faltering luck.
— 1947 'Elegy for Kurt Porjescz, Missing in Action,1 April,1945'.
But often faltering feetCome surest to the goal;And they who walk in darkness meetThe sunrise of the soul.
henry van dyke— Reliance, st. 2.
One naked star has waded throughThe purple shadows of the night,And faltering as falls the dewIt drips its misty light.
james whitcomb riley— The Beetle.
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,… When care is pressing you down a bit,Rest, if you must—but don't you quit.… Often the goal is nearer thanIt seems to a faint and faltering man,Often the struggler has given upWhen he might have captured the victor's cup.
— Author unknown, "Don't Quit". Reported in Hazel Felleman, The Best Loved Poems of the American People (1936, reprinted 1957), p. 113–14.
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— From Vérité: forçage et innomable, translated as Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable in Theoretical Writings. London: Continuum, 2004. ISBN 0826461468.
The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.
kenneth boulding— Boulding, 1973, p. 21 as cited in: Donald W. Cole (1983) Conflict resolution technology. p.5
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a faltering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
Heinrich Heine— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIII, Epistle LXXVII.
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.
— General Joffre—Proclamation. Sept. 6, 1914. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.
