The Fall Quotes

The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.

His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.

People think edges are bad, but they are really there to keep up from falling to pieces. They don't hold us back, they hold us in. They hold us together.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.

It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.

We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to the real person or we don't.

You don't know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.

Glad that I live am I; That the sky is blue; Glad for the country lanes, And the fall of dew.

There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.

And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.

If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!

That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.

If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

We just couldn't hit shots. We had good looks but they weren't falling and we kept turning the ball over.

Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen.

I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Hurt that's not supposed to show, and tears that fall when no one knows.

I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over

One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.

Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch?... One happy day for every falling leaf you catch" -sam

Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.

I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.

I'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.