Quotes about fall
fall ignorance thinking
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence Moses Mendelssohn
fall fighting thinking
You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz. P. G. Wodehouse
fall afternoon tin
The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
fall knives design
I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.
fall broken weight
A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain. Ovid
fall stones evolution
Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)
fall light shadow
I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter. Paul Emsley
fall hanging-on way
We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump. Paul Bowles
fall decision plowing
One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides. Masanobu Fukuoka
fall fields week
As far as my planting program goes, I simply broadcast rye and barley seed on separate fields in the fall . . . while the rice in those areas is still standing. A few weeks after that I harvest the rice, and then spread its straw back over the fields as mulch.
fall ideas want
The idea of my future simultaneously thrilled and terrified me, like standing at the lip of a very sheer cliff- I could fly, or fall. I didn't know how to fly, and I didn't want to fall. So I backed away from the cliff and went in search of something that had a clear, solid trajectory for me to follow, like hopscotch. Marya Hornbacher
fall curious feels
...painfully curious...about how it feels to fall.
falling-in-love happens seems
Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.
fall simple criticism
Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again. Martha Beck
fall choices losing
Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.
fall world nostalgia
The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions. Marshall McLuhan
fall broken darkness
and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter. Mark Helprin
fall people half
Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince. Mark Haddon
falling-in-love selfish people
The nicest people fall in love indiscriminately ... while under the influence of that pre-eminently selfish lunacy they may make the most outrageous demands upon their friends with no other excuse than their painful need. Margery Allingham
falling-in-love heart men
When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything! Oswald Chambers
fall pride men
Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.
fall falling-down get-up
I just get up again when I fall down. Paul Harvey
fall kissing trying
Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak of what happened. Such things have little to do with words, so little, in fact, that it seems almost pointless to try to express them. If anything, I would say that we were falling into each other, that we were falling so fast and so far that nothing could catch us. Paul Auster
falling-in-love confusion quality
Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in love with each other. We all know that, but the moment we go beyond a catalogue of surface qualities and appearances, words begin to fail us, to crumble apart in mystical confusions and cloudy, unsubstantial metaphors.
falling-in-love fun interesting
What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love. Patrick J. Adams
fall unions splits
United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs. Patrick Henry
fall danger resources
The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources. Jurgen Habermas
fall court-judges judging
Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.
fall knowledge principles
Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can thus be adequately explicated through the methodological analysis of scientific procedures.
falling-in-love hero romance
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. Julia Quinn
fall guy down-and
You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy. Judah Friedlander
fall thinking skating
I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute. Jud Tylor
fall together republic
Our republic and its press will rise and fall together. Joseph Pulitzer