Fall Quotes

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.

Safe sex - with a condom, rubber gloves and a wet suit is fine as long as you don't fall in love.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about.

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

I can fall asleep at any time and wake up at any time.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.