Falls Quotes - page 4

[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion. (Chuck Jones)
All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there. View quote
Maurice Sendak
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place. View quote
Jennifer Aniston
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level. View quote
George Orwell
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. View quote
Bertrand Russell
So extravagant is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees,... . View quote
John Muir
If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him. View quote
Dave Matthews
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well. (Bertolt Brecht)
Down the mountain walls From where Pan's cavern is Intolerable music falls. Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear, Belly, shoulder, bum, Flash fishlike nymphs and satyrs Copulate in the foam. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin. View quote
Jerome
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. View quote
Francesco Guicciardini
There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken. View quote
Jack London
Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls. View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
When a big tree falls, the earth shakes. View quote
Rajiv Gandhi
A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A nation never falls but by suicide. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen. View quote
David Livingstone
Love is like a teacup that every day falls to the ground and breaks to pieces. In the morning the pieces are gathered and with a little moisture and a little warmth, the pieces are glued together, and again there is a little teacup. He who is in love spends life fearing that the terrible day will come when the teacup is so broken that it can no longer mended. View quote
Subcomandante Marcos