Fallen Quotes - Page 31

• In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

  Michael Gove

  Perfection, Trying, Fallen World

  "'Why should any teacher ever vote Tory?'". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Writing, Stories, Magazines

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• I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

  Namie Amuro

  People, Listening, Singing

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• Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

  Larry Wall

  Creativity, Thinking, Trying

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• I imagine people might look at me and think 'Oh, she has been single-mindedly working on her career all these years and those family issues have fallen by the wayside', but that is absolutely not the case.

  Savannah Guthrie

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

  Kay Hagan

  Hands, Long, Abuse

  "Don’t Filibuster Cordray" by Kay R. Hagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Honesty, Lows, Should

  Song: Fallen

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• Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Philosophy, Soul, Wake Up

  Song: Poses, Album: Poses, 2001

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• The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.

  Vinod Khosla

  Europe, Climate, Wells

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• I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

  Chuck Lorre

  Player, Guitar, Television

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• Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

  Amelie Nothomb

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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• When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Past, Fire, Generosity

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• Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Struggle, Awards, Long

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• I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.

  Kevin Powers

  Watches, Looks, News

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• ..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Believe, Men

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• Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.

  John Shelton Reed

  Heart, Alabama, Dixie

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• We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Country, Pride, Proud

  "Patriotism and Michelle Obama: A 4th of July Reflection" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Pilots, Way, Madly In Love

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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• It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.

  Norbert Capek

  Life, Hero, Grateful

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• It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Distance, Land, Acres

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• Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Writing, Order, Loser

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• Christ, as the ultimate Imago Dei is alluded to in scripture as being without external beauty in the Classical sense, and should better be thought of as one who passed through all the slime and mire of a fallen and sinful creation in order to redeem it. His own body is to be remembered for the marks it bears-even in resurrection-of the scars of his sacrificial death. For the Christian, a theory of beauty might better begin at this point.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Christian, Order

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• I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets
  And the music of fresh fallen leaves
  Caught in a sliding summer breeze.

  Scott Hastie

  Summer, Dust, Hot

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• That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Wall, Mirrors, Diversity

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• Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.

  Joel Osteen

  Broken, Needs, Discouraged

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