Fall Quotes
10460 quotes by 5295 authors
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While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.
— Venerable Bede
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Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
— Daniel Johns
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When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.
— Gene Hill
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Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
— Colin Fletcher
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I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop…
— Arthur Laffer
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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy…
— Walter Lang
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There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler has…
— Gene Sharp
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When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of…
— Arlene Croce
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There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it…
— Jed Rubenfeld
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The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require fuel, food, or service; it…
— Lewis Buzbee
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I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms…
— Stanley Crouch
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Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.
— Robert Quillen
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I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete…
— Julie Gregory
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Unjust social orders do no fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches…
— Timothy B. Tyson
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
— Lance Secretan
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As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and…
— Heinz Pagels
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Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we…
— Will Carleton
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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…
— Francesco Guicciardini
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it youre presumed to…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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