Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonard Cohen

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

Laz Alonso

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't mean that your families are going to fall in love with each other.

Layzie Bone

I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of new love is spent, they move on to the next, thinking the love wasn't real. What I felt in her, and potentially in you, is the love of years. Love that knows that that first rush of freshness isn't the real thing. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

Lascelles Abercrombie

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Lars von Trier

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Lance Secretan

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

Langston Hughes

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.

Langston Hughes

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Langston Hughes

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

Langston Hughes

Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.

L. J. Smith

The Vampire Diaries is the story of Elena falling in love with Damon.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

Juliet Stevenson

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

Juliet Marillier

She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.

Juliette Binoche

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

Julie Garwood

Everything is your fault. You made me fall in love with you, and now I'm so upset I can't think or sleep or eat.

Joyce Banda

Leadership is about falling in love with the people you serve and the people falling in love with you.

Joy Behar

Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. I like to work, and I fear that something could fall through. You know what they say: 'The show must go off.

Justin Bieber

You can't fly unless you let yourself fall

Julian Schnabel

A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I like it when things suddenly affect the painting. I mix up this red and it affects the whole painting or this little bit of white falls down there, and something changes the whole nature of the thing. The residue on what happens, that's what's in the paintings.

Julianna Baggott

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

Juliana Hatfield

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

Julianne Moore

I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important.

Jules Renard

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

Juan Pablo Galavis

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.

Joshua Jackson

I'm not really the type to wear my heart on my sleeve. I would let someone know if I liked them, but it takes a while for me to fall in love.

Josh Billings

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Josh Billings

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

Josh Billings

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.

Josh Billings

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.