The Fall Quotes

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

The higher they fly the harder they fall.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)

But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.

Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the river, it's a good thing for me. I like that feeling.

Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.

I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.

If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

My music should fall under fair use because it's transformative, it's becoming its own entity, and it's not negatively impacting anyone's sales.

Fair use is a part of United States copyright law. You don't know if it falls under fair use until you go to court. Someone has to sue you and then you have to challenge it.

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do have to sell it. Otherwise, it takes the viewer out of the moment.

I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships.

Bigger the risk, bigger the reward. But the higher the climb the harder the fall.

I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour...I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.

Nothing falls like London Rain Nothing heals me like you do

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.