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Quotes About Fall

yea dost thou fall upon thy face? thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit!
~ sonia leong
The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his great sickening cupRecklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.
~ Sophocles
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.
~ St. Augustine
penso que só quem amou é sofreu, só quem viu a paz é a guerra, só quem ascendeu é caiu, só esse, creio, pode dizer que viveu verdadeiramente
~ Stefan Zweig
Ceux qui tombent entraînent souvent dans leur chute, ceux qui se portent à leur secours
~ Stefan Zweig
The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.
~ Len Goodman
Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.
~ Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
~ Marilyn Manson
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.
~ Josh Lanyon, Fair Game
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.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The truth will form and fall apart again.
~ Sarah Slean
It's been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it's time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.
~ Steven Moffat
Ambition soars and also slithers
~ rassool jibraeel snyman
when one reaches the top of a public agency, one becomes a politician, and politicians fall out of favor.
~ Michael Connelly
Would you just check him? I'm pretty sure he's dead." "How do you know?" "He jumped from the twelfth floor. Would you just check him, make sure he's dead?
~ Michael Crichton
The higher up the tree a cat climbs, the farther it will fall. It's the same for politicians, except politicians don't bounce.
~ Michael Dobbs
The next morning was Chicago cool, a slippery slope in late fall that could quickly deteriorate to cold, freezing cold, arctic cold, and why-the-fuck-would-anyone-live-here cold.
~ Michael Harvey
As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the state is not far from its fall.
~ Michael J. Sandel
One intervention was not like the others, however: when you closed schools and put social distance between kids, the flu-like disease fell off a cliff. (The model defined "social distance" not as zero contact but as a 60 percent reduction in kids' social interaction.) "I said, 'Holy shit!' " said Carter. "Nothing big happens until you close the schools.
~ Michael Lewis
Each of the crude strategies had some slight effect, but none by itself made much of a dent, and certainly none had the ability to halt the pandemic by driving the disease's reproductive rate below 1. One intervention was not like the others, however: when you closed schools and put social distance between kids, the flu-like disease fell off a cliff.
~ Michael Lewis
Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I'm really proud to be part of it. I think it's great that the show came back. We have another generation to fall in love with magic and the 'Charmed' sisters.
~ Ser'Darius Blain
The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.
~ Michael Nesmith
Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.
~ Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red