Falls Quotes

• He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Tree
  • Sound
  • Falls

• He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Mountain
  • Falls
  • Lands

• Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Life is
  • Falls
  • Rotatory

• A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

  

  Sallust
  • State
  • Falls
  • Dissension

• When someone falls,” Mark said, “you don’t throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. It’s the Christian thing to do.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Christian
  • Offer
  • Hand up

• The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Stone
  • Symbol
  • Falls

• Only the corrupt or the stupid person falls for the open bribe, there are other methods, more insidious, harder to detect, by which the same results are achieved. The favor granted, the casual present bestowed on the unwary, the conferring of benefits that make a decent human being feel indebted. Of all the warnings the one to remain freshest in my memory is Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • Corrupt
  • Falls
  • Bribe

• It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Fun
  • Needs
  • Carry

• I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Doubt
  • Sea
  • Wind

• My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples, some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Death
  • Loved
  • Video Games

• I have gone to Niagara-on-the-Lake. You know, Niagara Falls in Canada. It's this cute little quaint town, and it's just warm, and everyone is so nice.

  

  Nicole Gale Anderson
  • Just
  • Everyone
  • Cute

• Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Men
  • Question
  • Woman

• Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.

  

  Gary W. Keller
  • Lead
  • Falls
  • Domino

• And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue.

  

  Bill Byrd
  • Inspiring
  • Leaders
  • Falls

• There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Music
  • Grass
  • Falls

• We are really quite lucky this yeara because Christmas falls on Christmas Day.

  

  Bobby Gould
  • Lucky
  • Falls
  • Christmas Day

• Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Contradiction
  • Omnipotence

• "A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

  

  Woodrow Wyatt
  • Woman
  • Through
  • Falls

• Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

  

  Evita Peron
  • Violence
  • Tomorrow
  • Five

• Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Darkness
  • Discovery
  • Link

• You've got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Human being
  • Bliss
  • Falls

• 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
  • Life
  • Turns
  • Falls

• 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
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Light

• I run and run and run. Past the hospital, through the garden, past a pond. And to the cold metal wall. I stop, gulping at the air, my heart racing in my ears. I reach up with one hand and touch the wall. My fingers curl into a fist, but it falls weakly to my side. And that's when I realize there is no where to run. 'But', my heart whispers, 'there is Elder.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Running
  • My Heart
  • Hospital

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