Quotes About Fall

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!

The cat, morbidly obese from eating virtually all of Isaac's meals, fell off the table like a four-legged haggis, and trudged away.

Semper Fidelis Dawn star flares on disk of night I fall, sun rises

A long fall. Dinah had ceased to even think in terms of up and down. The concept of falling had become meaningless to her.

Some of us, Daniel, are prone to a sort of melancholy, wherein we are tormented by phant'sies that other men are secretly plotting to do us injury. It is a pernicious state for a man to fall into.

The collapse of the lighthouse must have been astonishing, like watching the World Trade Center fall over.

Well, I may get drunk, the Widow admitted, but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't stagger.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must fall with the greatest loss

I was limping through the streets of Auckland. I had a fall at three in the morning. I knew in my heart of hearts, being a trained doctor, that I had one of the big three: Parkinsons, motor neurone disease or multiple sclerosis. And I knew Parkinsons was the likely one.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

In the fall of 1961, I went up to Clare College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, with the intention of becoming a biochemist in the end.

He had to find a woman who would have the genetics to produce children capable of riding the shadows and carrying on their work. That was his obligation. He could never simply fall in love; he had to fall in love with the right person. The odds of finding that were so slim, most riders never believed it could happen.

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

BALDOCK: To die, sweet Spenser, therefore live we all; Spenser, all live to die, and rise to fall.

Is it the fault of a girl bright with the light of romance that she falls in love with a rascal? Is the love any less pure? Any less heartfelt? Any less painful when lost?

feet, and fell again, but this

You feel you are creeping up over the edge of a precipice and that this cliff beckons you; worse, that you have a secret desire to fall over its edge into oblivion and that there is no way to stop that fall because you are the precipice.

They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I'm a cat that hit its nose.