Falling Quotes
2730 quotes by 1873 authors
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The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.
— Gayle Forman
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Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You…
— Nancy Farmer
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I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would…
— Winfield Scott
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The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger…
— Terry Brooks
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The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.
— Victor Manuel Rivera
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It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any…
— H. L. Mencken
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If girls were going after me, I would not only admit it, but I would probably exaggerate about the swarming masses. I can flirt and…
— Joshua Jackson
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Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all…
— Warren W. Wiersbe
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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
— Alexander Pope
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They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.
— Greg Garcia
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To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten...
— Joseph Stalin
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Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them…
— Gore Vidal
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Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers…
— Paul Gauguin
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No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape…
— Sigmund Freud
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I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to…
— Dawna Markova
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Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies…
— Geneen Roth
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Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)
— Unknown Author
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No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.
— Jadakiss
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