Fall Quotes - Page 39

• All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.

  E. M. Forster

  Spiritual, Men, Action

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.73, RosettaBooks

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• No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kings, Jobs, Long

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• Is it at all surprising that the number of those who hold the opinions of the Church in light esteem should so rapidly increase? How can that be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?

  John William Draper

  Errors, Religion, Church

  "History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper".

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Thinking, Mirrors

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.178

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• Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rain, Flower, Wind

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• I'm falling, but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile.

  Eyedea

  Matter, Stills, Hard

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• Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.

  Horace Dediu

  Apples, Missing, Orbit

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• You have to fall in love with yourself first, and if someone wants to join you, more power to them!

  Tyler Oakley

  Falling In Love, Love You, Want

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• Love is not something you want to fall into, love is something you want to step intelligently into. If your loved one doesn't love the Lord than don't set your heart to it. It's not worth it.

  David Asscherick

  Heart, Love Is, Want

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• That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Years, Play

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• How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Father, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

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• The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

  Mark Twain

  Skins, Legs, Down And

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3305, Delphi Classics

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• The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Sleep, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Golden Legend: Iv. The Road To Hirschau”

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• The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Mad, Certain

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.273

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• Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.

  John Burroughs

  Weather, Air, Snow

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.16, tredition

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• Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Spring, Rain, Sky

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• The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in.

  Dave Beard

  Time, Spring, Remember

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• I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms—or, more accurately, my quivering bank balance, accessed through foreign ATMs—would give out, and I’d fall to the ground.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Knowing, Giving, Balance

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• Hell is in the here and now. So is Heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside us this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.

  Elif Safak

  Dream, Falling In Love, Hate

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• RIE emphasizes the benefits of infants spending peaceful, uninterrupted time following their biological rhythms of falling asleep when sleepy and eating when hungry, rather than their having to adjust too soon to external schedules and unrealistic expectations. First, we have to let the child develop his own rhythm; and then later he can adjust more into adult life.

  Magda Gerber

  Children, Expectations, Peaceful

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• There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

  Dom Starsia

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Military, Tactics

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.44

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• Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Mean, Thinking

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• Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

  Walter Lippmann

  Tired, Men, Routine

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Reason, Neighbor

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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