The Fall Quotes

Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.

Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well." -Uncle Charles

There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwiches and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets on. They protect them from falling bricks, I guess.

I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

It's about falling down and getting back up.

That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

Her touch was as soft as a snowflake falling onto my skin.

The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden...it is the way of the gods...we mustn't fall in love...but its already too late.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.

The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.

George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.

I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to fall in love.' You have a goal.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

Wasn't making any great connection Wasn't falling for any intricate scheme Nothing that would pass inspection Just thinking of a series of dreams

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all!

I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.

I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, "Please make this end."

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'