Quotes about fall
fall two feet
Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet. Edwina Currie
fall color lines
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color Edvard Munch
fall jumping trying
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss. Edvard Munch
falling-in-love fall chains
The prisoner falls in love with his chains. Edsger Dijkstra
fall views average
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. Edsger Dijkstra
falling-in-love fall men
You can't belay a man who's falling in love. Edward Abbey
fall faces your-face
Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face. Eddy Arnold
fall humanity inspire
All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles. Aubrey Beardsley
fall blood people
People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're at high risk of falling. If they fall and break their hip, they not only die sooner, they die miserably. Atul Gawande
fall passion vices
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate. Aristotle
fall humble feelings
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute. Aristotle
fall beer drunk
They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward. Aristotle
fall play justice
One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions. Aristotle
fall government class
Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government. Aristotle
fall character honor
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. Aristotle
fall character thinking
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. Ben Kingsley
falling-in-love men idiot
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable. Ben Kingsley
fall flying-high dying
I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence. Ben Harper
fall ifs
If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else. Ben Harper
fall heart mean
Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do aim at human hearts. And then again, I have been told Love wounds with heat, as Death with cold; So that I fear they do but bring Extremes to touch, and mean one thing. As in a ruin we it call One thing to be blown up, or fall; Or to our end like way may have By a flash of lightning, or a wave; So Love’s inflamèd shaft or brand May kill as soon as Death’s cold hand; Except Love’s fires the virtue have To fight the frost out of the grave. Ben Jonson
fall capacity-to-love effort
In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love. Alexis Carrel
fall church world
European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins. Alexis de Tocqueville
fall heart long
Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant. Alexandre Dumas
fall unity musketeers
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. Alexandre Dumas
fall love-is thinking
I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally. Alexandra Cassavetes
falling-in-love believe people
Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for. Alexandra Adornetto
fall life riding stop unless
Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall of unless you stop pedaling. Claude Pepper
fall god life pray
Life is like Parachuting, as we fall through the air, we pray to god the chute opens.
fall lift mouths open rain sing
Lift up your heads, ye people, lift up your faces, too, open your mouths to sing His praise, and the rain will fall on you. Aimee McPherson
falls life visible
Life is a mirage; It comes from no visible rain; It falls into no recognizable sea. Sathya Baba
falls love unless
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. E. W. Howe
falling heard nobody tree
The Pelosi-Durbin announcement was like a tree falling in the forest. Nobody heard it.
fall feeling learned life moment time tried worked
I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life. Bill Hader