Fallen Quotes - Page 25

• Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, Rocks, Age

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• He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world.

  Dave Cook

  Block, Men, Climbing

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• I've fallen for your eyes, but they don't know me yet

  Ed Sheeran

  Eye, Know Me, Knows

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• Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Death, Christian

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• Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

  Richard Rohr

  Inspiring, Disappointment, Growth

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• There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, Done, Unions

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• God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

  J. I. Packer

  Fallen World, World, Comfortable

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation, to this day, cannot wash away one sin. The everLasting burnings in hell, cannot purify the flaming conscience, from the least sin.

  John Flavel

  Rain, Tears, Burning

  "The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel".

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• To be the best and stay there sweat is necessary.
  I'm older. Of course I'm older. That's the beauty of it.
  Sixteen years plus different level of wisdom. Different level of understanding. Different level of punishment.
  i want to live loooong after my records have fallen, long after my rings have tarnished.
  Whatever you got to do to make sure you chase your legacy. Every second of your life.
  How will you be remembered? How will you be remembered?
  Why wouldn't you fight for the greatest achievement ever?
  Leave your mark to endure forever.

  Ray Lewis

  Fighting, Years, Punishment

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• Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love countless times with all kinds of different music.There's still something about it,I guess it's called Freedom.

  Jeff Buckley

  Different, Kind, Endless

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• Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Creating, Our World

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Vegetables, Connections, Gutters

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• When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that real incomes have fallen sharply, it is worth recalling that economic statistics under the Soviet Union were hardly more reliable than any other official statements. Moreover, a country that produces what no one wants to buy, and whose workers receive wages that they cannot use to buy goods they want, is hardly in the best of economic health.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Real, Russia

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• But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of us, for I certainly felt it: a wrenching inside, like some small but improbably necessary organ was no longer in there, that it was missing, torn or fallen out. And at the time I'd thought that was the end of it; what was missing was gone forever

  Brian Lumley

  Hurt, Thinking, Forever

  Marvin Kaye, Orson Scott Card, Tanith Lee, Brian Lumley (2008). “The Ghost Quartet”, p.20, Macmillan

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• I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love You, Care, Way

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.244, Penguin

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• Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.

  Steven Erikson

  Names, Forgotten, Moments

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• To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Political, Empires, Novelists

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• In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.

  Jacobus Arminius

  Men, Grace, Useless

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• We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Pain, Struggle

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• The bluebells made such a pool that the earth had become like water, and all the trees and bushes seemed to have grown out of the water. And the sky above seemed to have fallen down on to the earth floor; and I didn’t know if the sky was the earth or the earth was water. I had been turned upside down. I had to hold the rock with my fingernails to stop me falling into the sky of the earth or the water of the sky. But I couldn’t hold on.

  Graham Joyce

  Fall, Rocks, Sky

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

  Terence McKenna

  Pipeline, Neurosis, Absence

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• Now the seasons are closing their files
  on each of us, the heavy drawers
  full of certificates rolling back
  into the tree trunks, a few old papers
  flocking away. Someone we loved
  has fallen from our thoughts,
  making a little, glittering splash
  like a bicycle pushed by a breeze.
  Otherwise, not much has happened;
  we fell in love again, finding
  that one red feather on the wind.

  Ted Kooser

  Wind, Tree, Paper

  Ted Kooser (2005). “Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985”, p.96, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

  David Hackett Fischer

  Memories, Grief, Past

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• Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date

  Mary Karr

  Laughter, Book, Reading

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• I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage funny how life works out like that.

  Rachel Roy

  Girl, Men, Work Out

  "Man Repelling With Rachel Roy This Valentine's Day". Interview with Veronique Hyland, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 25, 2011.

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