Falling Off Quotes - Page 4

• I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

  David Nicholls

  Fall, Believe, Snow

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing football--but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.

  Judith Viorst

  Soccer, Football, Fall

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business

  John Moody

  Running, Fall, Firsts

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• Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.

  Paul Murray

  Fall, Opportunity, Boys

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• Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing
  things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

  Martha Beck

  Fall, Simple, Criticism

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• Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Feet, Opposites

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1992, Manonmani Publishers

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• If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose.

  John Sheridan

  Fall, Trying, May

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• I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fall, Government, Should Have

  "Bernie Sanders On Being Jewish And A Democratic Socialist". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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