Quotes about fall
fall optimistic kites
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. William Arthur Ward
falling-in-love nice fall
Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily. Waylon Jennings
fall character dust
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? Washington Irving
fall writing light
The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others as mere transient meteors, doomed to soon fall and be forgotten, while its own luminaries are to shine steadily into immortality.
fall animal law
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven. Walter Lang
fall government order
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West. Walter Lippmann
fall confusion democracy
A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.
fall tired men
Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.
fall standards states
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
fall hair mad
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad. William Boyd
fall autumn gold
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson. William C. Bryant
fall blood passionate
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. William Butler Yeats
fall learning mind
Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity....
fall gay rebirth
All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.
fall compassion wind
Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease....
falling-apart anarchy things-fall-apart-important
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
fall needs adam
It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.
fall land ems
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. Will Carleton
fall independent broken
My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots. Will Arnett
fall persevere sometimes
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? Wilkie Collins
fall autumn years
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. Walter Savage Landor
fall men wit
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
fall firsts genius
Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
fall men names
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
fall hbo pilots
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall. Walter Hill
fall school mean
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school. Walter Dean Myers
fall today economy
It is true that the role of the state in the Russian economy may be too big today, but from the fiscal standpoint, it is not always practical to do this in a falling market. Vladimir Putin
fall together leap-of-faith
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. Yo-Yo Ma
fall autumn winter
But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North") Yevgeny Zamyatin
fall eye autumn
They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")
fall interesting roles
It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future. Winona Ryder
fall secret important
I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
fall expectations giving
The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians. Winston Churchill