Quotes about fall
fall rose soul
A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude. Friedrich Nietzsche
fall rope virtue
To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down. Friedrich Nietzsche
fall dancer needs
One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape. Friedrich Nietzsche
fall philosophical tree
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? George Berkeley
fall age might
I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. George Burns
fall results mankind
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results. George Bernard Shaw
fall dogma trustworthy
Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma. George Bernard Shaw
fall sweetheart falling-off
Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene Gena Showalter
fall pride years
One step, two...three...Soon she was in front of Aeron, smiling at her success. "What was that?" he asked. "Walking." "Took you so long, I'm officially fifty years older." She raised her chin, pride undiminished. "Well, I didn't fall. Gena Showalter
fall law ideas
If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge. Gary McCord
fall tree woods
If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care? Gary Larson
fall would-be scandal
The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition. Galileo Galilei
fall believe people
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. Freeman Dyson
fall ocean mean
Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least. Freeman Dyson
fall men fear-mongering
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering. Fred Barnes
fall mean home
If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into. Fred Frith
fall thinking talking
If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing. Franz Kafka
fall tree paradise
Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it. Franz Kafka
fall world quiet
From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true. Franz Kafka
fall happy-life journey
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey. Franz Kafka
fall space people
People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others. Franz Kafka
fall two-sides tree
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us. Franz Kafka
fall rain heart
Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts. Erich Maria Remarque
fall falling-apart
I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly. Erica Jong
fall sleep wish
I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly. Erica Jong
fall sleep long
I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up. Enrique Iglesias
fall turkeys two
The two of them went down in a heap, with not even a turkey to break their fall. Eoin Colfer
fall night skulls
A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder. Eoin Colfer
fall thinking imagination
I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination. Emma Caulfield
fall eye anorexia
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Emily Saliers
fall men thinking
When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved by the idea of men liking her. Because I think that there is a side to every man that really wants to watch a woman fall apart. Emma Forrest
fall feet world
I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet. Eminem
fall heart winning
Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win. Eminem