Quotes about fall
fall unions gaps
When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows. John Sweeney
fall trying may
If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose. John Sheridan
fall cutting thinking
In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can. John Selden
fall men judgment
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
fall light perfect
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. John Shelby Spong
fall people humanity
What we now need to see is that human life doesn't need to be rescued from a fall that didn't happen. Human life needs to be empowered. We have to begin to see the work of God as expanding the humanity of people so that they do not have to relate to one another out of the survivor mentality of fallen people.
fall mean order
I want to see Christianity enhance our humanity instead of rescue us from some fall. I don't want us to be depending on this supernatural God up in the sky; I want us to recognize that God is part of who we are and that we have to live out the meaning of God with other people. That means we must live in mutual respect and interdependence; it means we have to limit our own desires in order for the body politic to survive.
fall tree firsts
The tree falls not at the first stroke. John Ray
fall design events
Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it? James Lee Burke
fall light air
What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air. Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools. James Joyce
fall triumph
To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
fall temptation soul
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
fall eye angel
Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!
fall light scotch-whisky
The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude.
fall ifs
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
fall eye dark
Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December. James Schuyler
fall ebb-and-flow age
Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later. James Rollins
falling-in-love men opposites
Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave James Salter
falling-in-love mean men
They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.
fall simple tears
The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out. James Russell Lowell
fall government democracy
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
fall rain sunset
The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
fall thinking tree
Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
fall past thinking
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth...
fall autumn hair
What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
fall clouds whole
GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability. James Fisher
fall keys environment
We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall. Lamar Odom
fall sick cows
If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick. Lalu Prasad Yadav
fall kissing floating
Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland. Liane Moriarty
falling-in-love humility pride
They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to
falling-in-love holding-on easy
Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky
falling-in-love waiting over-you
If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over. Liev Schreiber
fall flying-high laughing
As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall. Libba Bray