Falls Quotes
1434 quotes by 1096 authors
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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel,…
— John Wesley Powell
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
— Jay Maisel
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve…
— Bernard DeVoto
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Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it…
— Arnold Schoenberg
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The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the…
— Thurgood Marshall
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The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win…
— Tommy Lasorda
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This may sound crazy, but to love someone so much that their happiness comes before yours; to find someone who wants to be with you…
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate
— Hilary Benn
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My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status,…
— Bindi Irwin
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When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he…
— J. Frank Dobie
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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me…
— Charles Lindbergh
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All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
— Unknown Author
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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
— Ben Hecht
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Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried…
— Guy Clark
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There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they…
— Christian Friedrich Hebbel
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As a full-time, and serious-minded, UFO investigator, I strongly side with the proponents. It seems indisputable that the phenomenon is real, and that it falls…
— Peter Davenport
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O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of…
— William Shakespeare
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After gaining the incredible platform from 'Glee,' it wasn't so much of a decision to get involved as it was an opportunity to take part.…
— Darren Criss
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