Falls Quotes - page 3

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men. And women. (Robert Jordan)
Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they're full of meaningless activity; by night, they're full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dew on the still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass Music that gentler on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep. View quote
Margaret Mead
Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, "Fly, you fools." What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he's sort of improved. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead. View quote
George R. R. Martin
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well. View quote
Ramakrishna
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
A genius is someone who discovers that the stone that falls and the moon that doesn't fall represent one and the same phenomenon. View quote
Ernesto Sábato
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's going to be up all night. (Steven Wright)
Consider this point carefully: nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. View quote
Lucille Ball
Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp. View quote
Roger Ebert
A man falls in love just as he falls down stairs. It is an accident. View quote
Robert Southey
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
...the baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls. View quote
David Gemmell
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. View quote
Chen Shui-bian
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere. (Robert Charles Wilson)
We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot? View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable. View quote
Don DeLillo
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. View quote
John Fletcher