Fall Back Quotes

• Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together

  Colleen Hoover

  Heartbroken, Fall, Two

  Colleen Hoover (2012). “Point of Retreat: A Novel”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Life And Love, Fall, Failure

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• I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Dream, Morning, Fall

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• We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Fall, History, Needs

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• The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Fall, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.360, 谷月社

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• Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Fall, Character

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• Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

  Will Carleton

  Fall, Boys, Fire

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• For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

  Haniel Long

  Girl, Mother, Baby

  Haniel Long (1968). “If he can make her so”

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• ... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.

  Ruth Benedict

  Country, Fall, Ignorance

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• Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.

  Josette Sheeran

  Jobs, War, Fall

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• There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.

  Morgan Freeman

  Fall, Eye, Exercise

  "The Bucket List - Morgan Freeman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.

  Archie Griffin

  Football, Fall, People

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• Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Couple, Husband

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• [On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.

  Ida Tarbell

  Christian, Business, Fall

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• I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Quality, Sincere

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.107, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

  William Carleton

  Fire, Advice, Kites

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• It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

  Paul McCartney

  Art, Nice, Fall

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2012.

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• You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.

  Dana Hill

  Motivation, Fall, Feel Good

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• My mum always told me, 'Have something to fall back on' and I never really listened.

  Chuck Mosley

  Fall, Mum

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated. That's the incredible high we call being ‘in love.’ Unfortunately, once they expect this feeling to come from another person, they cut themselves off from the energy in the universe and begin to rely even more on the energy from each other - only now there doesn’t seem to be enough.

  James Redfield

  Drama, Fall, Being In Love

  "Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight".

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• Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours. Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.

  Joan of Arc

  Military, Fall, Blow

  Saint Joan (of Arc) (1961). “Joan of Arc: Self Portrait”

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• We were built to fall apart and fall back together.

  Taylor Swift

  Fall, Together, Built

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• The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fall, Fate, Opportunity

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.. ...(they) express something real and existing in ourselves.

  Mark Rothko

  Real, Fall, Ideas

  Mark Rothko (1997). “Mark Rothko”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

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• I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my (teaching) degree and then I'll see what happens, but I'll always have that to fall back on.' So if anybody were to look at me and say, 'Oh, you're an actor,' I could always say, 'Hey man, I'm a teacher!'

  Nathan Fillion

  Teacher, Fall, Teaching

  "Nathan Fillion Dishes on Being Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman". Movieweb Interview, www.movieweb.com. January 28, 2009.

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