Fall Quotes - Page 19

• Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Views, Average, Intellectual

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.163, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.

  Evel Knievel

  Failure, Long, Trying

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• My faith instills in me a deep sense of humility and gratitude, reminding me how often I fall short and how much I need the savior, and how thankful I am that God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves.

  Karen Hughes

  Faith, Gratitude, Humility

  Karen Hughes (2004). “Ten Minutes from Normal”, p.341, Penguin

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• Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

  George S. Patton

  Fire, Decisions You Make, Quality

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• Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes you outwards. All your possessions will be outwards: your wife, your husband, your children, your body - your body is outside you; your mind - your mind is outside you. The only thing that is not outside you is the witnessing. Just the watchfulness - that is your buddha. Identification means losing witnessing, falling into the trap of attachment. That is our misery, that is our slavery.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Husband, Mean

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• We stand or fall by television.

  E. B. White

  Television

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• When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety are utterly without substance.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Color, Light, Rainbow

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• Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Winter, Tree, Storm

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Winter, Night

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1376, Delphi Classics

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• The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

  Robert Musil

  Learning, Pockets, Crystals

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.535, Pan Macmillan

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• I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

  Lee Ryan

  Thinking, Dying, Wake Up

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• Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

  Johannes Tauler

  Grace, Demise, Sin

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• Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Death, Summer

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• When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Death, Summer, Lying

  "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".

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• The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Aggravation, Firsts, Return

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

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• Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

  Izumi Shikibu

  Flower, Dew, World

  Liza Lim, Izumi Shikibu (2000). “Burning house: for koto and voice (1 performer) (1995)”

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• We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.

  Ajahn Chah

  Giving Up, Rain, Teaching

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• Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

  Mason Cooley

  May, Cushions

  "City Aphorisms: Twelfth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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• Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled. So people can fall down: it doesn’t mean they can’t get up again and keep going.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Mean, People, Bumps

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• Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Thinking, Air

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• Cause even the stars they burn, some even fall to the earth. We've got a lot to learn, God knows we're worth it.

  Jason Mraz

  Stars, Earth, Causes

  Song: I Won't Give Up

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• To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

  James Joyce

  Triumph

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.199, Collector's Library

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• Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

  Helen Keller

  Wall, Land, Enchantment

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• I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.

  Bob Goff

  Real, Thinking, Used

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• If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.

  Joyce Meyer

  Priorities, Firsts, Making Time

  Joyce Meyer (2014). “The Confident Mom: Guiding Your Family with God's Strength and Wisdom”, p.100, Hachette UK

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