Fall Quotes

• In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Light

• Daisy had learned not to pay much heed to techno-fads. To her fell the task of preserving as much as possible, so that when humanity finally did fall, it wouldn’t take everything else to the grave with it.

  

  David Brin
  • Fall
  • Humanity

• Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fear
  • Fall
  • Climb

• You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Die
  • Effort

• After all the stops and starts, we keep coming back to these two hearts. Two angels rescued from the fall, and after all that we've been through, it all comes down to me and you. I guess it's meant to be, forever, you and me, after all.

  

  Peter Cetera Chicago
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Forever

• I have given up my studio & torn up my father's portrait, & have not touched a brush for six weeks nor ever will again until I see some prospect of getting back to Europe. I am very anxious to go out west next fall & get some employment, but I have not yet decided where.

  

  Mary Cassatt
  • Up
  • Father
  • Fall

• Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Success
  • Positive

• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • World
  • Friends

• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Script

• I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • People
  • Trust
  • Friendships

• When you fall in love, you become weak.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Control
  • Fall
  • Cards

• The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'

  

  Andra Day
  • Fall
  • Failure
  • Criticism

• I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

  

  Joe Nichols
  • House
  • Football
  • Christmas

• When we blame all Muslims, all Syrians, or all members of any other group because of the actions of individuals, we fall into the trap of asserting collective guilt. We empower the narrow-minded ideology that we are trying to defeat.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Trying
  • Blame
  • Guilt

• I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Fall
  • Books

• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • House
  • See
  • Century

• I want to cry out to these young girls: Stop! Think! . . . For heaven's sake, don't fall down the rabbit hole of the lesbian scene. You will never escape, and your talent will wither on the vine. Your energy will be wasted and absorbed in repetition without progression. Women alone are Spenser's Bower of Bliss, enclosed, comfortable, and dangerous.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Stop

• if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Perfect

• Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • God
  • Team
  • Weakness

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Woman
  • Grace
  • Curiosity

• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Tree
  • Christmas
  • Roots

• So ist vielmehr der Fall, daß das Volk, insosern mit diesem Worte ein besonderer Theil der Mitglieder eines Staats bezeichnet ist, den Theil ausdrückt, der nicht weiß was er will.1

  

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Fall

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