Quotes About Fall

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

It has been noticed that, in the face of imminent danger, a man rarely remains at his normal level; he either rises well above himself or dips well below. The same happens to nations. Extreme dangers, instead of lifting a nation, sometimes end by bringing it low; they arouse its passions without giving them direction and confuse its perceptions without clarification.

He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

You ever put your arms out and spin really, really fast ? Well, that's what loves like. It makes your heart race. It turns the world upside down. But if you're not careful, if you don't keep your eyes on something still, you can lose your balance. You can't see what's happening to the people around you. You can't see your about to fall.

fortunately all governments will fall the only ones which won't fall are the good ones and the good ones don't yet exist

Kendra] also referred to Tizoc Theron, one of the most powerful mercenaries in all of vampiric existence, as her Tizzy. The Inquisition was a dreadful inconvenience, World War II was a little spat and the fall of Midnight, the vampiric empire that had reigned for centurie, was an unfortunate event.

One cannot climb high without standing on others, and all she had wanted was to reach the top. What a waste it all seemed now. There is nothing at the summit, in the end, but a long drop.

She shrugged. "I fell. I'm a clumsy fool." "I know how you feel. I'm such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and hacked my leg to useless pulp. Look at me now, a cripple. It's amazing where a little foolishness can take you, if it goes unchecked.

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

When you have a society with huge gaps in income and status, Richard told me, it creates the sense that "some people seem supremely important, and others seem of no importance at all." This doesn't affect only people at the bottom. In a highly unequal society, everyone has to think about their status a lot. Am I maintaining my position? Who's threatening me? How far can I fall?

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

Ay me, how many perils do enfoldThe righteous man, to make him daily fall.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

In Adam's fallWe sinned all.

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.

My Lord, what a morning,When the stars begin to fall.

They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.