Quotes about fall
fall science moon
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound; And through this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose. William Shakespeare
fall deep-love fairness
Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!
fall ambition lady-macbeth
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side
fall winter hands
When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.
fall sky together
Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together Adele
fall thinking hands
We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this. E. F. Schumacher
fall breathing deer
How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently. Richard Bach
fall firsts ifs
One must first learn to fall if one would fly...
fall effort trying
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable. Robert Fritz
fall sleep winter
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off. Robert Frost
fall old-habits mad
For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine. Robert Fulghum
fall heart hands
The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with hand and mind And heart, if need be, I will do my best. To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road And try to stack them in a better load.
fall bed chance
My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out. Robert Benchley
fall writing character
Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses. Rita Mae Brown
fall character thinking
I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate. Rick Moody
fall rome two
Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together. They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental theory of our government and of all popular government everywhere. Richard Thompson
fall long desire
I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal. Richard Wagner
fall mean simple
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered. Rene Descartes
fall prejudice combat
Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest. Thomas Paine
fall men feet
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
fall years teeth
The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago. Thomas Hood
fall autumn silence
I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.
fall humility men
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. Thomas Huxley
fall light shadow
As you walk through life, always walk toward the light, and the shadows of life will fall behind you. Thomas S. Monson
fall house naked
I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.
fall learning crystals
The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong. Robert Musil
fall echoes rocks
Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash, While fleet and far the living lightnings flash... And see the fiery arrows fall and rise, In dizzy chase along the rattling skies,— How stirs the spirit while the echoes roll, And God, in thunder, rocks from pole to pole! Robert Montgomery
fall men cups
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. Robert Greene
fall egypt next
Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East. Robert Baer
fall fire decisions-you-make
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire. T. Boone Pickens
fall men fire
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf. T. S. Eliot
fall heart singing
The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.
fall essence shadow
Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.