Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Weeknd

I ain't scared of the fall / I've felt the ground before.

Terry Pratchett

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

Terry Pratchett

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

Margaret Haddix

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

Margaret Fuller

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.

Marcus Allen

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

Marcus Buckingham

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

Michael Kors

American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.

Michael Foley

So the absurdity of happiness is that it is embarrassing to discuss or even mention, impossible to define or measure, may not be achievable at all - or, at best, only intermittently and unconsciously - and may even turn into its opposite if directly pursued, but that it frequently turns up unexpectedly in the course of pursuing something else. There is no tease more infuriating...It is tempting to forget the whole thing and simply fall back on the couch with a remote control in one hand and a beer in the other.

Michael Faraday

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

Melinda Gates

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

Melissa Marr

But I want to be near you always," he reminded her. "But you'll lose everyone else, and..." "I want forever with you." Seth lifted her chin so he was able to look directly into her eyes. "The rest will fall into place if I can be with you.

Melissa Marr

you are my life now. this"_he waved a hand dismissively around him at the club-"the fey, everything, it all falls into place once you accept me" -kennan

Melissa Marr

You're an idiot," she whispered tearfully. Finally, he opened his eyes and stared up at her; by then, she had moved on to stroking his hair and crying. She sat beside him on the edge of the bed, trying very hard not to bump him or let her cold tears fall on his bare chest and arms. For a moment he blinked at her. Then he asked, "Are you dead too?

Melissa Marr

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

Michelle Branch

Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .

Michele Bachmann

I haven’t had a gaffe or something that I’ve done that has caused me to fall in the polls.

Michael Stipe

For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

Maurice Sendak

I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.

Matthew McConaughey

Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.

Maya Angelou

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

Maya Angelou

Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

Maya Angelou

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

Maya Angelou

I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted.

Maya Angelou

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

Matt Smith

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

Matthew Arnold

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

Meg Greenfield

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

Megan Abbott

Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you're a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.

Meg Wolitzer

In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

Meg Rosoff

Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.