The Fall Quotes

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.

When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.

There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

Cirrus sky hawk drift, blue haze in the autumn air, and my mouth is dry.

God's judgement begins to fall on the Earth.

The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

Clinging to each other won't save you maggots when the boot falls!

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

The sky isn't falling.

Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

If you fall, the truth will set you free. And when your heart can see just one thing in this life, we'll set out on the journey.

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.