Falling Quotes

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily.

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for some reason.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.