Quotes about fall
fall focus routine
Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment. Philip Yancey
fall best-effort church
Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
fall feelings like-you
It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
fall long-ago unity
We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
fall grace world
The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
fall house-of-cards balance
We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel. Pope Francis
fall path grows
Everytime you fall down or take the wrong path, it isn't wasted. You will surely develop and grow over time. Natsuki Takaya
fall america rising
Families are always rising and falling in America. Nathaniel Hawthorne
fall autumn sunshine
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
fall height
A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards. Victor Hugo
fall light years
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
fall people stones
The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
fall charity ought
Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
fall people cooperation
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. Vernor Vinge
fall men relaxation
A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like. Vernon Howard
falling-in-love writing character
Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing—the characters, the story, the words, the themes—and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart. Veronica Roth
fall flames singing
It isn't the height that scares me - the height makes me feel alive with energy, every organ and vessel and muscle in my body singing at the same pitch. Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
fall eye night
That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds. I smile a little, and let myself go.
fall steps tobias
This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.
fall breathing deer
How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently. Richard Bach
fall firsts ifs
One must first learn to fall if one would fly...
fall effort trying
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable. Robert Fritz
fall sleep winter
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off. Robert Frost
fall old-habits mad
For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine. Robert Fulghum
fall heart hands
The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with hand and mind And heart, if need be, I will do my best. To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road And try to stack them in a better load.
fall bed chance
My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out. Robert Benchley
fall writing character
Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses. Rita Mae Brown
fall character thinking
I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate. Rick Moody
fall rome two
Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together. They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental theory of our government and of all popular government everywhere. Richard Thompson
fall long desire
I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal. Richard Wagner
falling-in-love passion years
In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month. Renee Fleming
fall mean simple
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered. Rene Descartes
falling-in-love war romance
Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories. Thomas More