Quotes About Fall

It is the destiny of children of spirit to soar too close to the sun and fall no matter how many times they are warned of the danger. Some will make it, but many do not.

The ladder tilts the opposite way, like it doesn't want to be involved in anything this ugly, and all of this is in the slowest possible motion for Lewis, his head snapping as many pictures as it can on the way down, like they can stack up under him, break his fall.

However, we now believe such an equilibrium would be unstable: if the stars in some region got only slightly nearer each other, the attractive forces between them would become stronger and dominate over the repulsive forces so that the stars would continue to fall toward each other. On the other hand, if the stars got a bit farther away from each other, the repulsive forces would dominate and drive them farther apart.

But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen, she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

But when fall comes, kicking summer out on it's treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed.

The night was cold, chilling the sweat on his face, but the air was as sweet and crisp as the first bite of a fall apple. Above him was a half-moon and what seemed like a trillion stars. To match the trillion pebbles, just as mysterious, that we walk over everyday, he thought. Mystery above, mystery below. Weight, mass, reality: mystery all around.

He that is down needs fear no fall, he that is low no pride, he that is humble ever shall have God to be his guide.

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

I've seen the nations rise and fall. I've heard their stories, heard them all, but love's the only engine of survival.

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say "Just what I expected," if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

In Genesis, the Bible's first book, woman is born from the body of man. The Fall from Eden represents the demise of hunter-gatherer life, the expulsion into agriculture and hard labor. It is blamed on Eve, of course, who bears the stigma of the Fall. 1' Quite an irony, in that domestication is the fear and refusal of nature and woman, while the Garden myth blames the chief victim of its scenario, in reality.

Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

You never know what will happen, when you fall from a great height.

I was a monster before the Fall and I'm a monster now. A different kind of monster, sure, but then again it's a different world.

wrapped in shadows that rose up, towered over him, and fell crashing down as the sun moved through the sky and threw light in through the windows.

Riot: Close to three hundred million Americans have died, son, during the Fall and in the years after...How many have to croak before y'all consider it game over? Lilah: All.

If you take God and faith and morality out of the equation, everything inevitably falls apart.

Unfortunately, "learning" is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution. It's what managers fall back on when they fail to achieve the results we promised.