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• I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something. A coup de foudre – a bolt of lightning. It’s fun to get knocked out that way!

  Iris Apfel

  Song, Falling In Love, Fun

  " "Iris Apfel: the muse of New York" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2012.

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• It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

  Caroline Knapp

  Way, Ruining Everything, Happened

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.9, Dial Press

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• To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Men

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Earth, Want, Scared

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• Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.

  Philip Gulley

  Prayer, Rain, Blow

  Philip Gulley (2009). “Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

  Simon Van Booy

  Lonely, Rain, Circles

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• Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.

  Mark Polish

  Falling In Love, Being In Love, Love Is

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• The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.

  Brian Webb

  Differences, People, Down And

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• Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

  Ron Suskind

  Civilization, America, Way

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• On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.

  Zeena Schreck

  Hands, Left Hand, Path

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• Because of the conflicts and challenges we face in today’s world, I wish to suggest a single choice—a choice of peace and protection and a choice that is appropriate for all. That choice is faith. Be aware that faith is not a free gift given without thought, desire, or effort. It does not come as the dew falls from heaven. The Savior said, “Come unto me” (Matthew 11:28) and “Knock, and it shall be [given] you” (Matthew 7:7). These are action verbs—come, knock. They are choices. So I say, choose faith.

  Richard C. Edgley

  Free Gifts, Choices, Effort

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• Never fall in love with someone's potential.

  Marshall Sylver

  Falling In Love, Never Fall In Love

  Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• I was ahead in the slalom. But in the second run, everyone fell on a dangerous spot. I was beaten by a woman that got up faster than I did. I learned that people fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster.

  Bonnie St. John

  Running, People, Gold

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• My life always came first. When I got nominated for Diary of a Mad Housewife, I didn't think, 'Aah, now I'll get more money.' My dream had always just been to do my works well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

  Carrie Snodgress

  Dream, Falling In Love, Thinking

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• If a poor family falls on hard times in the woods, and no one is around to care, did it really happen?

  Stephen Colbert

  Hard Times, Care, Woods

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• Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net.

  Pablo Neruda

  Air, Two, Stories

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• Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.

  Lusia Strus

  Falling In Love, Children, Believe

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• I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless bigots, won't allow their behaviour to provoke us into words or behaviour which would could be seen as a breach of the peace. Hopefully, those of us who admire Margaret Thatcher are too well-mannered to fall for the bait.

  Norman Tebbit

  Grateful, Thinking, Views

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• I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

  Serena Williams

  Winning, Thinking, Champion

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• I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Falling In Love, Husband, Men

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• Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Missing, Bangs, Balls

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• Love is scary, like anything else, whether you're falling in love, whether you're discovering love in something else...if you're really going to jump off the cliff, when you meet somebody that you love you're going to jump off that cliff, you've got to give them everything. And when you have a kid, it's on a much greater level.

  Kate Hudson

  Falling In Love, Love You, Kids

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• I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sunset, Autumn, Rocks

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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• When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

  Pliny the Elder

  Desert, Building, Mice

  'Historia Naturalis' bk. 8, ch. 103

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• Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them. If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

  Flavia Weedn

  Dream, Thinking About You, People

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