Fallen Quotes - Page 23

• Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Life, Self, Doubt

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• Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,
  O flakes of snow,
  For which, through naked trees, the winds
  A-mourning go?

  John B. Tabb

  Winter, Wind, Snow

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Blue, Dragons

  "'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter I: "The Craft", 1939.

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• The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Age, Problem

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.483, Harvard University Press

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• Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Diversity

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• If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Philosophy, Power, Hands

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go. You are already there - you have never been away. You cannot be away from there. God has never been missed. Maybe you have forgotten, that's all. Maybe you have fallen asleep, that's all.

  Rajneesh

  God, Spiritual, Knowing

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• I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

  Brooke Shields

  Black, Mental Illness, Holes

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• We Jews continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands. While the naive Americans wait for Khrushchev to bury them, we have taught them to submit to our every demand.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Christian, Hands, Waiting

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• I've fallen for one girl too many who's wanted some variation of who I am and only that. It eats you alive.

  Christopher Krovatin

  Girl, Who I Am, Variation

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• For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians

  Justin Martyr

  Christian, Taken, Men

  Justin Martyr, Aeterna Press (2016). “Dialogue of Justin With a Jew”, p.98, Aeterna Press

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• No female - young, old, black or white - could ever play the knight-on-charger with meager experience. If she presented herself as the human embodiment of national unity and world peace, everyone would have fallen down laughing.

  Froma Harrop

  Knights, Play, White

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• Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.

  David Archuleta

  Fate, Moments, Prime

  "Fictional character: Optimus Prime". "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter

  William S. Burroughs

  Fall, Independent, Quality

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am what you call a non-believer. I don't even want to say I'm an atheist because frankly I don't want to join their club either. But the point is, I am a fallen catholic, I'm not religious, and that's all well and good.

  Kathy Griffin

  Religious, Atheist, Catholic

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• I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Men, Labels, Way

  "Evan Rachel Wood Transforms Herself … Again". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche

  Tom Selleck

  Opportunity, Thinking, Risk

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• Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet

  Steve Valentine

  Stress, Wake Up, Realizing

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• You put the picture of the ideal person in your head and then someone comes along and they don't fit that ideal at all. But somehow there is something about them that is so attractive. Everyone that I have fallen for has not fit that ideal at all.

  Emily VanCamp

  Fit, Attractive, Persons

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• I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people.' I do believe that. Not superior to all other people, but to some, most probably including those who think Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is a great film. That is not simply ego on my part. It is a faith that after writing and teaching about films for more than 40 years, my tastes are more evolved than those of a fanboy.

  Roger Ebert

  Revenge, Believe, Teaching

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• As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe; we have Masada, Tel-Hai, and the Warsaw Ghetto - where the battle was lost, but the war of Jewish existence was won.

  David Elazar

  War, Ghetto, Names

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• I am like a table
  that eats its own legs off
  because it’s fallen
  in love with the floor.

  Cate Marvin

  Legs, Tables

  Cate Marvin (2007). “Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems”

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• My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.

  Brassai

  Reality, Vision, Ordinary

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• I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.

  Harry S. Truman

  Stars, Moon, Planets

  Remarks to reporters, 13 Apr. 1945

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• It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Army, Inspire

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