Falls Quotes

1434 Falls quotes by 1058 unique authors

You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To… — John O'Donohue
The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be… — Pope John Paul II
Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven. — Langston Hughes
You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts… — Leo Tolstoy
At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then… — Chelsea Handler
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties… — Alan Paton
Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the… — Vera Nazarian
Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good.… — Mary Doria Russell
My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is… — Wendelin Van Draanen
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will… — Gustave Flaubert
What falls away is always. And is near. — Theodore Roethke
Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It… — Jodi Picoult
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to… — Charles Bukowski
I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make… — Jonathan Coe
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we… — Martha Beck
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like… — Hermann Hesse
If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise? — Brad Warner
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made… — Nelson Mandela
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.… — Boris Pasternak
No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make… — Rachel Cohn
But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see… — Che Guevara

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