Falls Quotes
1434 Falls quotes by 1058 unique authors
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath…
— Alfred the Great
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On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
— Aeschylus
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Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as…
— Charles Kingsley
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Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can…
— Jurgen Habermas
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Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is…
— Louis Pasteur
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Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.
— Rajneesh
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The key to looking great in the evening is to look original. Try to look different from others without looking out of place. When everyone…
— Isaac Mizrahi
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for…
— Alan Bennett
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The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away;…
— Rajneesh
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We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
— George Washington
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When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single…
— Jens Stoltenberg
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I don't pay attention to what others are doing. I feel strongly that if I have correct goals and the determination to keep pursuing them…
— Dan Dierdorf
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Everything rises and falls on leadership.
— John C. Maxwell
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Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
— Eugene Sue
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If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.
— Unknown Author
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All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead,…
— Ethel Lynn Beers
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It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly…
— Etienne de La Boetie
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It falls apart now. They used to be intrinsically linked. Now they've been driven so far apart that I don't think the one has anything…
— Louise Wilson
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To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it,…
— George Berkeley
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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
— Rajiv Gandhi
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But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you…
— Bear Bryant
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Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless…
— Carl Jung
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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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