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Quotes About Fall

People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born.
~ Joseph Adam Pearson.
I'm going home." - Celeste"To never return?" - Uway"Yes, show me the way to never return." - CelesteALL LIGHT WILL FALL
~ Almney King
Pues la ambición sólo se inflama ante lo azaroso del éxito y el logro fácil, pero nada eleva el corazón de modo tan espléndido como la caída de un hombre en lucha contra el predominio invencible del destino. Esa es la más grandiosa tragedia de todos los tiempos, la que de cundo en cuando logra crear algún poeta, y la vida miles de veces.
~ zweig stefan
Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.
~ Aeschylus
I know the stars by heart, the armies of the night, and there in the lead the ones that bring us snow or the crops of summer, bring us all we have-- our great blazing kings of the sky, I know them, when they rise and when the fall . . .
~ Aeschylus
You are young and young your rule and you think that the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored.
~ Aeschylus
I know the stars by heart, the armies of the night, and there in the lead the ones that bring us snow or the crops of summer, bring us all we have-- our great blazing kings of the sky, I know them, when they rise and when they fall . . .
~ Aeschylus
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
~ Alan Moore
Don't fall. It seems we've struggled for so long. We've trampled on the backs of apes to clutch the muddied hems of angels.
~ Alan Moore
One of the floral arrangements swayed like a drunken sailor, then toppled, clattering to the floor.
~ Diana Dempsey
Those who are fascinated by evil all too easily fall pray to it themselves [said the old priest at the Mission Dolores].
~ Dianne Day
And me who seem curious because no one has seen me for a million years, and now I'm seen! Is there such extraordinary need of misery to make beauty? Let go Hell; and your fall will be broken by the roof of Heaven.
~ Djuna Barnes
Harry, I think I'm beginning to love you," said Kitt. "No, let's not fall in love, Kitt." "No?" "No. It's too complicated." "Yes, yes, you're right, of course, no love. Lots of lovely lust. No love. It's already too complicated.
~ Dominick Dunne
Beyond that he was a ghost of Uganda; in this nation of his birth he was under a death sentence for the simple crime of having lived. And he was the ghost of his father's dream of security and continuity, there was no security, and this age was the enemy of continuity. Every man stands on the freight-car roof. We fall and fall, our feet planted on the solid surface, and the only question is how long before we hit.
~ Donald E. Westlake
After a summer as jam-packed with incident as Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, the fall and winter of 1967 passed with placid serenity on the island of Anguilla, as free from action as a Saul Bellow novel.
~ Donald E. Westlake
I watch a white landscape that turns pale green, dark green, yellow and red, brown under bare branches, until snow falls again.
~ Donald Hall
The strongman shoved him, and Uncle Barney fell to the ground. His knight's costume of pots and pans banged loudly.
~ Donald J. Sobol
I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
~ Winona Ryder
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Life is on an incline; you either go up, or you come down.
~ Kiran Bedi
Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.
~ Machado de Assis
The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
And I remember being foolish enough to think... let's fall in love.
~ Jeph Loeb , Tim Sale
The 2003 flu season started early in North America, with the first cases showing up in the fall. By Thanksgiving doctors were seeing the usual flu-related pneumonias. As always, the most severe cases resulted from secondary bacterial infections in flu-congested lungs.
~ Jessica Snyder Sachs