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Quotes About Falls

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
~ Anonymous
Down through the starry intervals, Upon this weary-laden world, How soft the soul of Silence falls! How deep the spell wherewith she thralls, How wide her mantle is unfurled.
~ Unknown
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.
~ Unknown
Ernest Ransom: These are not the best if times...as your editorials remind us A.A. Hayes : Why not get a Democrat back in there? Ernest Ransom: These are not the worst of times eithers Dingley Falls
~ Unknown
This police commissary was a great patron of all the arts and industries; but what he liked above everything else was a cheque. "That's the thing," he used to say, "to which it is not easy to find an equivalent; it requires no food, it does not take up much room, it stays in one's pocket, and if it falls, it is not broken.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Why did you vanish Into empty sky? Even the fragile show, When it falls, Falls in this world.
~ Ono no Komachi
Are we going to Portland?" I asked. "Or Multnomah Falls?" He smiled at me. "Go to sleep." I waited three seconds. "Are we there yet?" His smile widened, and the last of the usual tension melted from his face. For a smile like that, I'd...do anything.
~ Patricia Briggs
In short, the 1870s illustrated the force of the remark that antisemitism rises and falls in inverse relationship to the stock market. In that decade, when the market crashed, bigotry rose.
~ Unknown