Fall Quotes - page 3

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. (Bertolt Brecht)
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. View quote
Lucretius
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. View quote
Anna Quindlen
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. View quote
Helen Garner
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Women may fall when there's no strength in men. View quote
William Shakespeare
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. View quote
William Shakespeare
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. View quote
Sophocles
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. View quote
Junot Diaz
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. View quote
Annie Leibovitz
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it-always... View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I will remain on the throne until I fall off! View quote
Margrethe II of Denmark
I am full of doubts ... Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay. View quote
Juliette Binoche
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? View quote
Dante Alighieri
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. View quote
William Hazlitt
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. View quote
Harold Macmillan
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power. (Thomas Malthus)
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. View quote
Alexander Pope
A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned. View quote
Ewan McGregor