Quotes about fall
fall order world
All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose. Gerard Manley Hopkins
fall blue shining
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
fall men mind
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
fall risk littles
To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security. Harry Markowitz
fall people firsts
All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall Harry S Truman
fall lasts bombs
Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb. J. K. Rowling
fall age veils
It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.
fall tears hot
And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.
fall want speak
Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.
fall west-indies rocks
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.
fall men animal
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards. H. G. Wells
fall passing-away fundamentals
Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals. H. L. Mencken
fall believe mind
The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.
fall artist civilization
Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit. Guillaume Apollinaire
fall sky doubt
The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened. Grace Napolitano
fall want credit
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. Gilbert Parker
fall ends backwards
At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
fall bridges rivers
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square. H. P. Lovecraft
fall heaven faces
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face. George Herbert
fall discovery irrational-numbers
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described above of introducing trasfinite numbers. One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite. Georg Cantor
fall irrational-numbers mathematics
The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.
fall holiday sea
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt. Geoffrey Zakarian
fall mean thinking
I always go to the lowest common denominator for that ingredient. So if I think squash, I try to think what it means to me -- and if it doesn't mean anything to me, I'm not gonna do well when I cook it. So [squash] means to me: fall, maple syrup, cinnamon, and things just come into your head so you can narrow the vortex and make it a bit smaller and you go with something because there's no time.
fall character judging
We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off. Georg C. Lichtenberg
fall rivers swimmer
When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer. Gene Hill
fall dark men
I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds. Friedrich Nietzsche
fall men flying
Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
fall men boredom
With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.
fall thinking people
You have to have your personal life, and at the end of the day I think what people forget, especially when you're online, is that you're a person too, right, and that you're not this ideal of feminism, that everything you do like feminism just like falls in your wake. Jessica Valenti
fall long moments
There are moments when I would love to fall asleep with my head on somebody's shoulder, just because I was so used to that for so long. Jessica Simpson
fall five games hate jumping ship sky
I'd hate to think about jumping off the ship after five games into the season. The sky doesn't fall after five games and I'm not concerned. Joe Torre
fall messes month sleep stand takes
I can't stand the fall because it messes up my sleep pattern, and it takes me a month to get over.
fall hoping love marriage people potential powerful soul sticks work
I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage. Jonathan Silverman