Quotes about fall
fall confusion democracy
A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator. Walter Lippmann
fall tired men
Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.
fall standards states
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
fall color never-forget
I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires. William Standish Knowles
fall hair mad
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad. William Boyd
fall political liberty
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy. William C. Bryant
fall autumn gold
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.
fall autumn years
Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.
fall sadness autumn
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
fall blood passionate
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. William Butler Yeats
fall learning mind
Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity....
fall gay rebirth
All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.
fall compassion wind
Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease....
falling-apart anarchy things-fall-apart-important
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
fall needs adam
It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.
fall boys white
Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. Will Carleton
fall land ems
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
fall independent broken
My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots. Will Arnett
fall taken men
The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him. Wilhelm von Humboldt
fall heaven fairy-tale
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. Walter Ulbricht
fall autumn years
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. Walter Savage Landor
fall men wit
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
fall firsts genius
Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
fall men names
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
fall hbo pilots
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall. Walter Hill
fall school mean
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school. Walter Dean Myers
fall today economy
It is true that the role of the state in the Russian economy may be too big today, but from the fiscal standpoint, it is not always practical to do this in a falling market. Vladimir Putin
fall together leap-of-faith
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. Yo-Yo Ma
fall autumn winter
But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North") Yevgeny Zamyatin
fall eye autumn
They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")
fall interesting roles
It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future. Winona Ryder
fall secret important
I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
fall expectations giving
The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians. Winston Churchill