Quotes About Fall

Eller nodded while staring into the flames, then said, 'Have you heard of the Occam Heresy?' 'I have. The heresy is that only verifiable facts can be assumed as truth, while ecclesiastical thought is only speculation. It is denial of God. It negates the idea that the Fall was due to the sin of pride.' 'Very dangerous in religious circles,' said Eller. 'We wouldn't want facts to get in the way now would we?

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

In these few seconds Finn lived such a long time, that the marble fell back into the bottom of an exhausted world.

If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?

Harvest Days, a fall festival on the grounds of the Quaker Meeting

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

The news could hardly have been worse. The fall of Ulm was a disaster of epic proportions

You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.

A movement made a hundred times before, a thousand times before, except this time, instead of muscle and nerve performing their everyday miracle of coordination, I tilted to the right and started to fall.

She smiled to herself at the sudden shyness that fell on the two girls as she walked away.

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.

There are some people at whom one only has to glance for one's throat to tighten and one's eyes to fill with tears of emotion. These people make one feel as if a stronger memory of our former innocence remains in them, as if they were a freak of nature, not entirely battered by the Fall. Perhaps they are messengers, like the servants who find a lost prince who's unaware of his origins, show him the robe that he wore in his native country, and remind him how to return home.

I find the satellite pictures and the curvature of the Earth very moving. So is it true that we live on the surface of a sphere, exposed to the gaze of the planets, left in a great void, where after the Fall the light was smashed to smithereens and blown apart? It is true. We should remember that every day, for we do tend to forget.

These people make one feel as if a stronger memory of our former innocence remains in them, as if they were a freak of nature, not entirely battered by the Fall. Perhaps they are messengers, like the servants who find a lost prince who's unaware of his origins, show him the robe that he

The Messiah has to fall as low as possible, otherwise he isn't the Messiah.

The hidden secret of fall: the leaves don't actually "turn" colors. With the winter season coming, and the process of photosynthesis being without the key ingredients of warmth and sunshine, trees begin to break down chlorophyll. With the "green" gone, the other colors that have been there all along — the magical reds, golds, and oranges — begin to express themselves.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

For the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown.

American planes circled the clear blue sky of late fall. We stood in front of the Miyoshino-style building and looked up at them. "They're flying around in vain." "Yeah," Mabo said with a smile.

Nunca una clase conservadora, por simple odio a quien no la trituraba pudiendo hacerlo, ansió tanto la caída de un hombre».

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

The Bible insists that man started at the heights, at the zenith point with creation, a companion of God himself, and has fallen so far down that he is utterly unable to even glimpse the heights to which he once attained. The Fall was complete, and as the face of God became a fading memory in the lives of men, their lifespan quickly became shorter, their tempers larger, their hands ever more bloody, and they were forever doomed to become mere empty shells of what God had made them.

That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.