Fall Quotes - Page 18

• Failure is not falling down but staying down.

  Harvey Mackay

  Falling Down, Staying

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
  The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
  I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  
  Great Nature has another thing to do
  To you and me, so take the lively air,
  And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
  
  This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
  What falls away is always. And is near.
  I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  I learn by going where I have to go.

  Theodore Roethke

  Sleep, Light, Air

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.165, Anchor

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• The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Ideas

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• I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

  Leonard Cohen

  Survival, Stories, Heard

  Song: The Future, Album: The Future, 1992

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• The one who doesn't fall, doesn't stand up.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Mma

  "Strikeforce Live Blog: Fabricio Werdum shocks Fedor Emelianenko in first round" by Brett Okamoto, lasvegassun.com. June 26, 2010.

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• The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.

  John Cusack

  Realizing, Minutes, Unlimited

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Order, Together, Levels

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• The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.

  Paul Krugman

  Ideas, Stones, Deficit

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• It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Balls, Literacy

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• I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor potential.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Snacks

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• Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.

  Ed Ayres

  Courage, Acceptance, Patterns

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• The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Faith, Wisdom, Spring

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4656, Library of Alexandria

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• There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memories, Twilight, Eye

  "The Philosophy of Ingersoll: To Plow is to Pray, to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and Fulfils".

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• All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

  Ovid

  Love, Life, Crash

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• Here is their plan. Whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff as long as they are behind the wheel of power when we fall.

  Chris Christie

  Long, Tunes, Politics

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall; we will free ourselves by the aid of that large and respectable class of the community - the men of no property.

  Wolfe Tone

  Men, Class, Community

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• NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Philosophy, Science, Apples

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.149, 谷月社

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• Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Book, Reading, Rivers

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.305, Indiana University Press

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• Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.

  Jeanette Lee

  Courage, Hard Work, Passion

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• I'll make fun of anybody. We're all about falling down and going boom on camera.

  Stephen Colbert

  Fun, Cameras, Down And

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• He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him... He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Book, Reflection, Bed

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

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• He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague refrigeration and tinfoiled sky of wintertime, was just a falling, really, originward, in a kind of correction, as if by spritual gravity, towards the wiser consciousness--or consciousnessless, maybe; could gravity trick itself like that?--of death. It was a kind of movement both very slow and very fast; there was both too much and not enough time to think.

  Tao Lin

  Summer, Spring, Thinking

  Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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• I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the ‘Normandy Invasion’ or ‘fall of the Berlin Wall’ of our generation...the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.

  Pete Hegseth

  Wall, Believe, Our Generation

  "Meet Kagan’s Astroturf Military Attackers" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• A fine shiver coursed over my skin. "Seth?" "Yeah?" "You were in my dream." One amber-colored eye opened. "Please tell me we were naked." I rolled my eyes. "You're such a perv." He sighed mournfully as he wiggled closer. "I'll take that as a no." "You'd be correct." Unable to fall back to sleep, I started chewing on my lip. So many worries surfaced at once that my brain spun.

  J. Lynn

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.

  Emile Zola

  Men, Nurse, Giving

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