The Fall Quotes

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude.

The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.

When the curtain falls no one is ready

Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.

You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

If we get too far ahead of ourselves we will fall over.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.

I agree that someone falling down is really funny, and I can go on YouTube and watch people falling. It makes me laugh.

Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

You must make your choice whether to hold on to some thing which cannot save you, or let go, and fall into the hands of the Lord.

People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.

The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.

There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth, then I do balancing exercises.

I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a #‎ controlfreak , it's hard.

The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.