Fall Quotes - Page 40

• He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fighting, Knees, Obstinate

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• Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Eye, Cheerful

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.116

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• It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

  William James

  Lonely, Routine, Emergencies

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

  John Updike

  Father, Clothes, World

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Falling In Love, Caring

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• I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!

  Langston Hughes

  Beauty, Falling In Love, Jealous

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.19, Hill and Wang

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• The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.

  Langston Hughes

  Death, Phones, White

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.15, Hill and Wang

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• Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

  Langston Hughes

  Together, Atoms, Bombs

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.7, Hill and Wang

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• Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Doe, Incessant

  Thomas Carlyle, Alexander Carlyle (1904). “New letters of Thomas Carlyle”

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• The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Children, Grandparent, Political

  "On Growing Up Tough (The Purple Lodge & The Hippies)". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.

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• In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

  Meg Greenfield

  Honor, Has Beens

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• The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Ideas, Purpose

  Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

  Neil Kinnock

  Ordinary, Young, Ill

  On the prospect of a Conservative re-election, in speech at Bridgend, 7 June 1983; 'Guardian' 8 June 1983

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• We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Moon, Discovery

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• Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Poetry, Goes On, Lines

  In M. St. J. Packe 'The Life of John Stuart Mill' (1954) bk. 1, ch. 2

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• Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Religion, States, Bigger

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• When I was in junior high, I would carry around this huge volume of Shakespeare. I just like the romantic vibe. I write about it because I fall in and out of love quite a bit. I was always pulling on my mother’s heartstrings to get more love.

  Fefe Dobson

  Mother, Writing, Juniors

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• He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

  Saint Augustine

  God's Will

  Saint Augustine, John A. Mourant, William J. Collinge (2010). “Four Anti-Pelagian Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 86)”, p.285, CUA Press

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• You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Betrayal, Accepting

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• The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Reality, Essence, Sky

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• When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Hands, World

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• To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Writing, Trying, Tails

  Lawrence Durrell, Earl G. Ingersoll (1998). “Lawrence Durrell: Conversations”, p.29, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

  Frank Capra

  Children, Rain, Men

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

  Hippocrates

  Home, Exercise, Men

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• When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax.

  Jenn Suhr

  Fun, Thinking, Jumping

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