A Quote by Colum McCann

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough. — © Colum McCann
The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

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The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.
Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to say things I want to retract. I'm going to sing notes I wish I could have back, there's just no getting around the stumble, but if you stumble enough times you're going to fall off the edge and have no choice but to freakin' fly.
There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in this world. There's enough teachers, there's enough universities for everybody's needs to be met, and the reasons they aren't is not because of lack of resources. It's because of distribution, and that's the politics of hate, which is why this is a movement against that. It's a politics of love.
Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool.
You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.
You are the central point about which his world spins.
When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.
Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
Stumble is worse than falling, because stumble is not as instructive as the falling!
For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.
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