Quotes About Falling

The idea that North Korea alone excelled while all other nations were falling behind seemed a near obsession.

Darling, you have to come home,' she started in as soon as I answered. 'You cannot possibly want to stay in that... that tomb with bodies falling out of the wall!' 'I don't know why not,' I replied. 'It's everything a ghoul could ask for.'

For I must wander On the deep sea bed Showering pearls on dead men Gathering shells And sweeping the shadows of passing boats With my falling hair Across the sliding sands into the mouth of hell

Falling in love isn't about expectations or an outcome. It is about the sheer, weightless, joyous terror of falling into the universal embrace.

Es el ruido de las cosas al caer desde la altura, un ruido interrumpido y por lo mismo eterno, un ruido que no termina nunca, que sigue sonando en mi cabeza desde esa tarde y no da señales de querer irse, que está para siempre suspendido en mi memoria, colgado en ella como una toalla de su percha.

Dusk falls. There is nothing gentle about the sky.

tumbling to the ground. "Didja…didja hafta open it so…so fast?" he mumbled.

My earliest childhood memories are just of me falling and getting injuries.

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

One chance--that's what she had seen she had--one flying leap that was really composed of eight thousand separate possibilities for falling, and she had taken that chance and come this far and been found out.

The snowflakes came down like little bits of newspaper

There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.

Years ago, I picked up figure skating. How hard could spins and jumps be, I thought? It's just applied Newtonian physics. After repeatedly falling on my rear end, I realized it was harder than I thought. But it had an upside. That is how I met my wife, who was ice dancing at the Rockefeller Center ice rink.

Cadere non è un fallimento. Il fallimento è rimanere dove si è caduti.

The sound of the click, then the sound of Victoria's scream, then the sound of Victoria falling sideways to the floor.

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears – the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

Something deep in the human soul awakens as things fall apart. Something in the soul knows that everything in this world can become lost. And something in the soul knows how to survive periods of devastation, disorientation and loss. Descent and falling is the way of the soul from its beginning. We each fell from the womb of life when the waters of the inner sea broke and it came time for us to breathe on our own.

I promised to tell you how one falls in love.

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

I learned from BMX and skateboarding how to take a fall.

You see figure skaters fall all the time. It's the way you pick yourself back up and keep going.

That's the thing about ice skating, you can just fall awkwardly like that.