Fall Quotes

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
Harvey Fierstein

Change, Looks, Fabulous

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.
Baltasar Gracian

Confidence, May, Difficult

If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.
Colin Powell

Passion, Down, Leader

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.
Darrell Royal

Fish, Might, Lucky

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Mind, Open, Brains

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
Andy Warhol

Love, Someone, Exciting

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon

Men, Power, Knowledge

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
Colin Powell

History, Might, Aftermath

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
Rudyard Kipling

Down, Backwards, Stairs

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
Peter Marshall

May, Give, Vision

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler

Impossible, Playing, Compromise

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?
Richard Dawkins

Yourself, Deep, Mean

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White

Act, Victim, Circus

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.
Nicole Kidman

Love, Trust, Brave

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Horace

High, Mountain, Highest

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.
Brandy Norwood

Love, Yourself, Keep

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr

Life, Great, Death

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Joseph Story

Wise, Honest, Betray

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.
Lord Byron

Hope, Fear, Nothing

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Helen Garner

Nature, Rain, Again

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Charlotte Whitton

Sun, Face, Behind

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges

Love, Religion, God

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron

Business, Him, Gentleman

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Before, Speak, Word

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.
Tim Tebow

Greatest, Grace, Straight

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.
Allan Sherman

Love, Hurt, Shoes

Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.
John Krasinski

Insecurity, Fight, Guys

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Robert Browning

Laugh, Eyes, Keep

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton

Change, Moral, Opinions

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