Fall Quotes - page 5

If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over agaain. (Greg Egan)
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind they will both fall into the ditch. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
How slow the shadow creeps but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast How fast. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. View quote
Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. View quote
Francis Bacon
It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave. View quote
Nicole Kidman
To doubt Is worse than to have lost; and to despair Is but to antedate those miseries That must fall on us. View quote
Philip Massinger
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes what they want is to see you fall. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. (Salman Rushdie)
Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams -- can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man. View quote
William Wordsworth
He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head. View quote
Stephen R. Donaldson
nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before. View quote
Vitruvius
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. View quote
Stephen Leacock
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. View quote
Isaac Watts
There are those fallen who don't get up so as not to fall again. View quote
Antonio Porchia
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once. View quote
John Green (author)
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. View quote
Jim Rohn
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. (Sallust)
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her. View quote
Marcel Proust
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves their stronger, riskier selves. View quote
Toni Morrison
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges