Fall Quotes
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Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.
Joseph Heller
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In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.
Matthew Scully
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When you start a political party, you are creating space for yourself. So many people were shocked when they realized that I was serious and had no interest in occupying any political position, so they started to fall out one by one.
Wole Soyinka
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Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
William Shakespeare
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The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.
Blaise Pascal
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We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
George Washington
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"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.
Paul Auster
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Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.
R. A. Torrey
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Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
Guy Fieri
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There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.
Brendan Dooling
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The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.
Earl Silas Tupper
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I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.
Jose Canseco
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Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years
Kami Garcia
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Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
William Shakespeare
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Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.
Hakuun Yasutani
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The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of the heavens like roasted ortolans. He knows how to hunt...He is never inspired because he is unceasingly inspired, because the powers of poetry are always at his disposition, subjected to his will, submissive to his own activity.
Raymond Queneau
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Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.
Cynthia Heimel
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I think confidence is a big part of it. Also luck - the ball has got to fall for you in the right time and the right place.
Dele Alli
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A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
Madame de Stael
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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
William H. Gass
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The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.
Sarah Dessen
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
William Cowper
