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Quotes About Fall

A warrior's honor is his willingness to play a game on which he stakes everything. His grandeur is directly proportional to how far he can fall.
~ David Graeber
In autumn, treat fallen leaves with respect.
~ David L. Hough
Faste is an idiot." "No, Jan, he isn't. He's just …" "What?" "Conservative. He's not someone who falls for the latest feminist fads." "Or for the earliest ones either. He may have just got his head around all that stuff about votes for women.
~ David Lagercrantz
What does it take to turn the hero into a villain?
~ David Levine
maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.
~ David Levithan
The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.
~ Julian of Norwich
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
~ George Whitefield
We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.
~ Wes Nisker
God's judgement begins to fall on the Earth.
~ Greg Laurie
It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire
~ John L. Dagg
In fall, God is remembered; in rise, forgotten.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Relax, Jailbait," said Avery. "A drunken kiss is nothing compared to a drunken fall. God knows I've kissed plenty of guys drunk." "And yet, I remain unkissed tonight," mused Adrian.
~ Richelle Mead
The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God.
~ Dennis Miller
We need leaders who can reflect theologically and help develop more robust thinking that understands how context affects our understanding of God, humankind, the fall, and redemption.
~ Ed McBain
Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
~ John Steinbeck
The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we're holding on to that which we're climbing, or we're letting God hold onto us.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.
~ Dennis Lehane
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.
~ Selima Hill
There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.
~ Aries Spears
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
~ William Cowper
I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.
~ Ally Carter, All Fall Down
History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.
~ Mason Cooley
Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.
~ Noel Coward