Falls Quotes

1434 Falls quotes by 1058 unique authors

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be… — Flannery O'Connor
The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. -… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it… — Marcus Aurelius
The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway? — C.S. Lewis
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us;… — Evelyn Waugh
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now.… — Miranda July
I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night. — Steven Wright
Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the… — David Levithan
Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a… — Epictetus
I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card… — Ivan Turgenev
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and… — Virginia Woolf
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which… — Virginia Woolf
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their… — Haruki Murakami
How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set… — A. E. Housman
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say. — Italo Calvino
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. — Julia Quinn
Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying… — Khaled Hosseini
So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky? — Thom Yorke
Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across… — Jenny Downham
With the rain, falls the wisdom of heaven. — Paulo Coelho
I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A… — James Thurber
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing… — John O'Donohue

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