Fall famous quotes

When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."
-- A. A. Allen

#Moving #Fall #Son

By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the rains of Krishna consciousness fall, can the fire of material existence be extinguished.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#Spiritual #Rain #Fall

Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
-- A. E. Housman

#Stars #Rain #Fall

These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.
-- A. E. Housman

#Fall #August #Heaven

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
-- A. E. Waite

#Fall #Hands #Cards

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
-- A. J. Liebling

#Christmas #Fall #Mean

The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.
-- A. P. Herbert

#Running #Rain #Fall

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Fall #Writing #Science

Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.
-- Aaron Belz

#Fall #Thinking #Hair

The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.
-- Aaron Belz

#Lying #Fall #Humorous

I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.
-- Aaron Neville

#Falling In Love #Fall #Love You

There's the really angry drunk, who's just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and is being completely inappropriate. Or the super-loud, happy drunk, which is evidentially what I am.
-- Aaron Paul

#Fall #Drunk #Annoying

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Graduation #Fall #Numbers

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Fall #Years #People

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
-- Aaron Tippin

#Fall #Men #Puppets

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.
-- Abbi Glines

#Fall #Perfection #Twisted

When you fall for the one that owns you, she’ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.
-- Abbi Glines

#Fall #Cry #Make You Cry

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
-- Abby Sunderland

#Fall #Sea #Terror

O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.
-- Abdul-Qadir Gilani

#Wisdom #Fall #Islamic

When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U...!!!
-- Abhijeet Sawant

#Betrayal #Fall #Love You

Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.
-- Abraham Cowley

#Music #Fall #Moon

Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Motivation #Fall #Men

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Believe #Fall #Government

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Believe #Fall #Heart

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow [sic] which can be done to-day [sic]. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Fall #Men #Hands

He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.
-- Abraham Zapruder

#Fall #Car #Way

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
-- Abu Bakr

#Fall #Humility #Aggravation

I'm not gonna fall. I'm tired of falling. I'm tired of seeing our people fall. I don't believe in failure. It's what we put in our minds and our hearts to succeed. And success isn't about money. Success isn't about the biggest house in the world. Success is about loving your family, taking care of your child.
-- Adam Beach

#Children #Believe #Fall

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ***** followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
-- Adam Garcia

#Dance #Laughter #Fall

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
-- Adam Rapp

#Dog #Fall #Writing

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.
-- Adam Riess

#Fall #Apples #Tree

One night I couldn't sleep. It was like 2:00 in the morning. I was thinking, 'What can I do?' I'm watching TV. I'm like, 'Let me do something else.' I'm not going to fall asleep for a few hours. What are my hobbies? There was the masturbation option. I skipped that because just knowing my kids are down the hall I felt psychotic. So, I went with watching more TV. I couldn't come up with anything. I was going, 'God, read a book.' Then I was like this, 'Where do I keep the books?' I've got nothing to do but watch TV.
-- Adam Sandler

#Morning #Book #Fall

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Time #Fall #Moments

Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Spring #Rain #Fall

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.
-- Adelaide Crapsey

#Fall #Tree #Sound

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.
-- Adelaide Crapsey

#Fall #Snow #Silence

Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together
-- Adele

#Fall #Sky #Together

I let it fall, my heart And as it fell, you rose to claim it, It was dark, and I was sober, Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.
-- Adele

#Break Up #Fall #Heart

This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.
-- Adnan Pachachi

#Religious #Fall #Government

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Lying #Fall #Thinking

Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland.
-- Adolf Hitler

#War #Fall #Hands

Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Education #Fall #Science

If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.
-- Adrian Rogers

#Fall #Falling Apart

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Fall #Recovery #Rose

True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all. With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.
-- Adyashanti

#Wall #Fall #Love You

Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
-- Adyashanti

#Fall #Simple #Knowing

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.
-- Aeschylus

#Fall #Pride #Riches

See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself (s'est détacher de lui-même", Fr.), has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ("patrie", Fr.); thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence.
-- African Spir

#Hurt #Fall #Soldier

The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Fall #Sobriety #Tree

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
-- Agnes Repplier

#Stress #Fall #Mean

Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite. Your desire for involvement with the world of means when Allah has withdrawn you from it is a fall from high aspiration.
-- Ahmad ibn Ajiba

#Wisdom #Fall #Islamic

Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn't blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Mistake #Fall #Mean

I have to get back to the hotel. But I don't know the way. I always rely on Shouji so I didn't notice where we were going. Nut I came to this point. without realising my attitude and actions. It's like I am slowing falling into a valley. I wonder where I'm standing now.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Attitude #Fall #Nuts

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Fall #Church #Disease

The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Fall #Men #Soul

Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way.
-- Aileen Quinn

#Blessed #Fall #Lap

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.
-- Aimee Mann

#Fall #Years #Car

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
-- Ajahn Brahm

#Fall #Life Is Good #Lasts

We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Giving Up #Rain #Fall

Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Fall #Light #Meditation

A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn't hers to command. Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn't obey us, that means it's only a deception. Don't fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don't fall for it. Its all a deception.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Fall #Mean #Mind

Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into. It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible. A great deal about this can be learned from the study of the great plays, and I believe the ‘hard-boiled’ detective novels can also be very instructive.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Believe #Fall #Character

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'
-- Al Capone

#Fall #Cat #Marine

Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.
-- Al Hirschfeld

#Fall #Dark #Drawing

The most relaxing thing i do, hang halfway out a 3rd floor window, and look at rocks if i fall out. Well maybe i'll fall hard, something tough to break me, something sharp to rip into my insides and bleed out all that pain.
-- Al Kaline

#Pain #Rip #Fall

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #New York #Fall

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
-- Al Neuharth

#Confidence #Fall #Sky

Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.
-- Al Purdy

#Time #Fall #Autumn

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
-- Al Stewart

#Fall #Future #Past

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
-- Alain de Botton

#Falling In Love #Fall #Healthy

Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.
-- Alain Finkielkraut

#Fall #Men #Games

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.
-- Alan Arkin

#Fall #Thinking #Risk

So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
-- Alan Bennett

#Sarcastic #Fall #Names

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
-- Alan Bennett

#Memories #Fall #Knowing

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.
-- Alan Davies

#Fall #Bridges #Worry

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Fall #Looks #Causes

In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
-- Alan Paton

#Fall #Dark #White

Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background! The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace, the deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man's life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.
-- Alan Redpath

#Spiritual #Jesus #Fall

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
-- Alan Rickman

#Fall #Feelings #Dining

You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.
-- Alan Sillitoe

#Moving #Fall #Cutting

In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.
-- Alan Weisman

#Real #Fall #Cities

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
-- Albert Bandura

#Powerful #Fall #Mean

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
-- Albert Camus

#Fall #Rocks #Punishment

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.
-- Albert Camus

#Fall #Responsibility #Men

On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born.
-- Albert Camus

#Morning #Fall #Heart

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
-- Albert Einstein

#Love #Life #Fall

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein

#Love #Fall #Blame

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
-- Albert Einstein

#Fall #Simple #Office

I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.
-- Albert Finney

#War #Fall #Hbo

If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some only, and abandon others that, for the moment, we find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostrated, others in the end will surely fall.
-- Albert J. Beveridge

#Fall #America #Government

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
-- Albert J. Nock

#Fall #Ideas #Quality

We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.
-- Albert M. Wolters

#Art #Fall #Names

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Life #Fall #Everything Happens For A Reason

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Distance #Fall #Confusion

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
-- Albrecht Durer

#Jesus #Fall #Voice

Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Fall #Mean #Blessing

The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Fall #Wind #Tree

So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes...Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Letting Go #Lying #Fall

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?
-- Aldous Huxley

#Fall #Brave New World #Water

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Reading #Book #Fall