The Fall Quotes

Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.

It doesn't matter whether we live in the 19th or 21st centuries; we face the same basic problems that everyone who lives between the Fall and the return of Christ faces.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.

I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

Oh well, when I was younger I was known for breaking hearts. I am the kind of person that falls passionately in love but then a couple of months down the line, I fall out of love.

Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.

Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]

It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit.

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

I'm not planning a career change - not unless they need someone who constantly falls on the ice and is out of breath all the time.

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.

No matter how dark you are, no matter what you think your heritage is or how inevitable your fall is, you can always make a choice in the next second to be different.

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.

Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.

What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.

Ere, in the northern gale, The summer tresses of the trees are gone, The woods of Autumn, all around our vale, Have put their glory on.

His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.

- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.