Fall Quote by Alec Douglas-Home Download Open image “For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.” — Alec Douglas-Home ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fall Former Resolution Return Shore Stills
What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth the lesse,… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable;… — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and… — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind. — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin. — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience. — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the… — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love. — Nick Love Copy Share Image
“When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling.… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
