Fall Quotes - Page 28

• I loved to fall down.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Falling Down

  "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.

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• I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Falling Down, Believer

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• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  Oliver Reed

  Down And, Eating, Weak

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• There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

  Chuck Mangione

  Together, Hanging On, Way

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• This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

  Eartha Kitt

  Our Words, Entertainment, Forget

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• The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political message; not just to President Saddam but to the rest of the world. We are the superpower, those explosions said last night. This is how we do business.

  Robert Fisk

  Cutting, Night, Iraq

  "Bubbles of fire tore into the sky above Baghdad" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 21, 2003.

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• Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers.

  Kofi Annan

  Military, Responsibility, Law

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• If we don't act now, then we will go back to what has happened before and then of course the whole thing begins again and he carries on developing these weapons and these are dangerous weapons, particularly if they fall into the hands of terrorists who we know want to use these weapons if they can get them.

  Tony Blair

  Iraq, Hands, Want

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• Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . .

  Andrew Marvell

  Country, War, Shining

  Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.142, Pearson Education

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• We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Christian, Moving, Israel

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• I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no
  other man than that I am.

  Sophocles

  Mother, Children, Men

  Sophocles (1951). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”

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• To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Science, Comfort

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be solidly in the Yankees' corner... The efficiently triumphant Yankee maching is a great institution, but, as they say, who can fall in love with U.S. Steel?

  Gay Talese

  Girl, Baseball, Brother

  "The Yankees’ Field Of Screams" By Thomas B. Edsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2009.

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• Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together. They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental theory of our government and of all popular government everywhere.

  Richard Thompson

  Government, Rome, Two

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• Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wise, Men, People

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• Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.

  Jackie Collins

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Heart

  Jackie Collins (2013). “Lucky”, p.524, Chances Inc.

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• But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the matter, on the administrators of the health-care centers where abortions are performed. In this sense abortion goes beyond the responsibility of individuals and beyond the harm done to them, and takes on a distinctly social dimension. It is a most serious wound inflicted on society and its culture by the very people who ought to be societys promoters and defenders.

  Pope John Paul II

  Responsibility, Abortion Laws, People

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• The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

  Elihu Root

  Spring, Creating, Feelings

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.

  Rider Strong

  Character, Opportunity, Water

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• The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Angel, Men

  George Whitefield (2012). “The Lord Our Righteousness”, p.8, Curiosmith

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• The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

  Elihu Root

  Faith, People, Favors

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Heaven, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

  Phil Mickelson

  Sports, Morning, Book

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• Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

  Sam Worthington

  Love, Directors, Actors

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• And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

  George Orwell

  Fun, Pie, Would Be

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

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