Quotes about fall
fall eye angel
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again. Terry Pratchett
fall darkness kind
There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more.
fall thinking feet
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.
fall angel rising
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
fall philosophical squirrels
One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?' Which says something about the nature of philosophers , because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone.
fall magic world
The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of falling altogether. After all there has to be some belief in magic- however small- for any world to survive. Terry Brooks
fall people granted
You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. Tom Petty
fall thinking heaven
I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves. Simone de Beauvoir
fall men age
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
fall dust one-day
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
fall thinking doe
It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms. Simone Weil
fall holiday thinking
I realized that if I went snowboarding, you can't think of anything else when you're snowboarding. You can't hesitate or think about anything other than not falling off and breaking your neck. If you want a holiday where you're not gonna think about work and you're not gonna think about anything, snowboarding is the best way to do it. Or skiing, I guess. I don't ski, so I don't know. Simon Pegg
fall class people
Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor. Simon Mainwaring
fall hands next
Piper gripped his hand and followed him, “If I fall, you’re catching me.” “Uh, sure.” Jason hoped he wasn’t blushing. Leo stepped out next. “You’re catching me, too, Superman. But I ain’t holding your hand. Rick Riordan
fall doors blood
Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath and foes bear arms to the doors of death
fall brain pieces
I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it. -- Percy Jackson
fall eye blue
Nico di Angelo ran up to me with a big grin on his face. "Percy, this is awesome!" His blue-feathered bronze helmet was falling in his eyes, and his breastplate was about six sizes too big. I wondered if there was any way I'd looked that ridiculous when I'd first arrived.
fall two storm
The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes. Richard Brautigan
fall brave faces
Be bold, brave and not afraid to fall on your face and ultimately you will succeed Richard Branson
fall kids school
If you have conflicts, everything breaks down in society. Kids can't go to school. Basic health can't be looked after. Every aspect of society falls apart.
fall expression two
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole. Swami Vivekananda
fall eye men
Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.
fall opposites feet
Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.
fall opportunity sky
I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky. Tinashe
fall
You are so, even when falling." (Byakuya Kuchiki) Tite Kubo
falling-in-love writing laughing
The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them. Stephen Fry
fall writing wish
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
fall house suffering
It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in conformity with their wishes; to go on quietly, and to suffer nothing for the love of God. Yes, consider it certain that a person or a Congregation that does not suffer and is applauded by all the world is near a fall. St. Vincent
fall hypocrite faults
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin. St. Jerome
fall rain fields
That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.
fall bird beast
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
fall paradise married
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
fall heart thrones
The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne. Sri Aurobindo