Fall Quotes · Page 291

You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.

— Ani DiFranco

I can’t run around falling in love with fantasies.

— Kirsten Miller

Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.

— Marcus Eremita

We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!

— Renzo Novatore

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor…

— Julian Barnes

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do…

— Anne Bronte

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing…

— Zoey Deutch

“A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance…

— John Scott Haldane

If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former…

— Kate DiCamillo

There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered."…

— Lou Doillon

Living is a horizontal fall.

— Jean Cocteau

God designs people's emotions so you fall in love with people who, in return, wouldn't even use your hollowed-out skull for a…

— Scott Adams

I'm a Christian girl. I pray every night and before meals and before I go on stage not to fall.

— Chanel Iman

I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music…

— Daniel Lanois

But overall I want to make sure people fall in love with the clothes and that they are satisfied

— Raf Simons

You have to have your personal life, and at the end of the day I think what people forget, especially when you're…

— Jessica Valenti

Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't…

— Christopher Moore

I believe that if you do what you love, things tend to fall in place.

— Sarah Camp

I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames.…

— Noam Chomsky

The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth…

— H. L. Mencken

Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or…

— Nicola Cabibbo

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

— Nancy Mitford

It's always been my philosophy: Turn the page. If something falls through, turn the page. It's over with, get used to it,…

— Merv Griffin

Here comes fall. Just let is crash on me.

— Jade

You've been quiet these past days," Trevanion said. "Are you going to tell me what the...exchange of words was about?" "Who said…

— Melina Marchetta

George W. Bush is so pro-Mexico that if you hit him with a stick prizes would fall out of him.

— Argus Hamilton

The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman…

— Diablo Cody

“So what if I fall? I know I will never fall as hard as i fell for you.”

— Timothy Joshua

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken…

— Brian Andreas

He sighed deeply; to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see,…

— Betty Neels

This economy reminds me of fall

— John Rodriguez

We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and…

— Patti Smith

“October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”

— Angela Carter

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

— John Ray

The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on…

— John Steinbeck

All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural…

— Confucius

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and…

— Joseph Addison

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

— Joseph Addison

You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs…

— Alan Sillitoe

I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going…

— Leo Kottke