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Quotes About Faltering

America's 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
Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.
~ Aeschylus
Dreams are but prologue to days, epilogue to other days, written by our faltering minds.
~ Yiyun Li
Further, I must not dream for when I do I see the table set and a faltering crone at my place, her eyes burnt by cigarettes as she eats betrayal like a slice of meat.
~ Anne Sexton
I see the new couple holding hands, smiling so carelessly at each other. I want to scream "Stop!" to them. I want to warn them what happens when you fall in love. You get hurt. It will take a while, A few months, or if you're really lucky a year. But love, it falters. It fails just like everything else, it inevitably breaks.
~ Elizabeth Heller
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
he felt the whole vision turn to darkness and his very feet give way. His head went round; he was going; he had gone.
~ Henry James
When the cathedrals were white, spirit was triumphant. But today the cathedrals of France are black and the spirit is bruised. The works of the new civilization are coming together in a symphonic crescendo. The guiding spirit is faltering. The young act, but they do not know. The old cling to their accumulated treasures, but are unable to accomplish anything further.
~ Le Corbusier
love grown dutiful is love grown old a withered cupid faltering at the bow…
~ Lenore Kandel
I feel the shadow of wings across my face, Icarus wings, faltering in my flight.
~ James Reynolds
When a civilization does not support creativity it begins to falter. When it distrusts its gifted people, rather than encouraging them, a nation is at least in trouble.
~ Jane Roberts
The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise to make America just like it was in 1997? Will there be a desperate attempt to sustain the unsustainable by authoritarian measures? Will the institutions of order and justice fail in the process?
~ James Howard Kunstler
Wherever his faltering mind, unsteadily wanders, he should restrain it and bring it under self-control Krishna, the mind is faltering, violent, strong, and stubborn; I find it as difficult to hold as the wind.
~ Vikram Seth
America's 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