Falling Off Quotes - Page 3

• Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

  Cathleen Schine

  Fall, Flames, Letters

  Cathleen Schine (2013). “The Love Letter”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beautiful, Fall, Health

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.420

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• Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.

  Lewis Carroll

  Horse, Fall, Sides

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.

  Jon Jones

  Fall, Stories, Six

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• We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.

  Lech Walesa

  Wisdom, Fun, Fall

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• If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

  Michael O'Leary

  Fall, Pilots, Drink

  "Travel Editor’s Blog: Ryanair chief calls passengers idiots" by Jim Byers, www.thestar.com. September 5, 2012.

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• If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Fall, Earth, Want

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• The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

  Margaret Millar

  Nice, Fall, Simple

  Margaret Millar (2016). “Beyond This Point Are Monsters”, p.111, Soho Press

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• I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. And people are very much afraid of that. I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics. There's a very close analogue there.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Fall, Flames, Shooting Up

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

  John G. Schmitz

  Falling In Love, Earth, Danger

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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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• For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Fall, Taken, Cutting

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• I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

  John Lydon

  Fall, Wrinkles, Mirrors

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• I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Fall, School, Mean

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• Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Fall, Winning

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• You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.

  Gerard Butler

  Fall, Eye, Sweat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)

  George R. R. Martin

  Horse, Fall, Battle

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.59, Bantam

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• Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene

  Gena Showalter

  Fall, Sweetheart, Edges

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• I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Spring, Fall, Hands

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• President Bush fell off his mountain bike down on his ranch in Texas. A couple weeks ago, John Kerry fell off his bicycle. See, doesn't this make you miss President Clinton? That guy, he could ride anything without falling off.

  Jay Leno

  Couple, Fall, Texas

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• I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Fall, Thinking

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

  Nora Roberts

  Fall, Bridges, Sides

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.581, Penguin

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• I realized that if I went snowboarding, you can't think of anything else when you're snowboarding. You can't hesitate or think about anything other than not falling off and breaking your neck. If you want a holiday where you're not gonna think about work and you're not gonna think about anything, snowboarding is the best way to do it. Or skiing, I guess. I don't ski, so I don't know.

  Simon Pegg

  Fall, Holiday, Thinking

  "Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

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• A united Europe is our Continent's only chance to avoid falling off the world's radar. The heads of government of Germany, France and the United Kingdom also know that their voice is only heard internationally because they speak through the megaphone of the European Union.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Fall, Government, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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