Falling Off Quotes - Page 2

• David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They are far right libertarians, very anti-government, very pro-business, very anti-tax, anti-regulatory, in favour of free markets ruling the day.

  Jane Mayer

  Fall, Government, Libertarian

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.

  Leo Durocher

  Fall, Pool Table, Balls

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• Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

  Adam Duritz

  Crazy, Fall, Appreciate

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• I received a wonderful email after I spoke at a school from a girl who'd lived in a war zone and endured horrors no human being should suffer, let alone a child. This young lady was fortunate to be bought to Britain and seemed to adjust well, but suddenly found herself falling off the rails and sliding into hell when I chatted to her. In her letter, she told me the difference that I'd made. She's now 20 years old and a fashion designer employing staff and she puts her work ethic down purely to talking to me. It's my most treasured letter.

  Simon Weston

  Girl, Fashion, Children

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

  Ronee Blakley

  Fall, Feet, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.

  Bob Barr

  War, Fall, Approval Rating

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• The Domino Effect could stand for anything. It could be just the simple game of the domino rocks falling off one after another, all kinds of decision we make that come back to our face. For example take an anorexic model that stops eating until she dies, or the bombs that a are thrown in a war and the effect they have on people, or even something simple as listening to a record that you like until you get bored of it and leave it in your shelf.

  Leo Lionni

  War, Fall, Simple

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• My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame.

  Martine Franck

  Cousin, Fall, Two

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• There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.

  Brock Lesnar

  Horse, Fall, Boys

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• I once felt bad because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. He was wearing an ankle bracelet that kept falling off.

  Dana Gould

  Fall, Men, Shoes

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 13, 2013

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• What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.

  John Baldessari

  Horse, Fall, Kissing

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• David Hasselhoff was hospitalized after falling off the wagon again. He probably got used to drinking too much, because for years he never had to worry about driving anywhere - his car drove itself.

  Chelsea Handler

  Drinking, Fall, Years

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• What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Fall, Eye, Dark

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• It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

  Jonah Lomu

  Fall, Home, Ordinary Days

  "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

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• I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fall, Writing, Trying

  Charles Bukowski (2008). “Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990”, City Lights Publishers

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• And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way.... ....His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds. Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.

  Julia Quinn

  Horse, Fall, Taken

  Julia Quinn (2009). “Romancing Mr Bridgerton: Number 4 in series”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.

  Tim Conway

  Horse, Fall, Cleveland

  Interview with Claudia Perry, www.aislesay.com. March 31, 2005.

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• Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Falling In Love, Flying, Cliffs

  Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Dragon Heir”, p.291, Hachette UK

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• It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

  Brennan Manning

  Fall, Cheese, Crackers

  Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.103, David C Cook

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• And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I would just fold my arms or give them a pat on the back before they sailed headfirst to the ground? We are all catchers, and it's sad that she doesn't see it. Instead she sees the PHONINESS, she deplores the world even after I point out that I am in it.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Kids, Thinking

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I kind of just lost track of laps. I couldn't hear a split. It was just so loud in here everyone was going nuts. I sort of felt like I was a little tired and I said, the people in front of me seem like they are falling off the lead pack a little bit. I should probably make a move. I hear ding, ding, ding, ding and I thought "oh crap! I've really got to go, I've got a lot left.

  Will Leer

  Moving, Fall, Tired

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• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Fall, Men

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• No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.

  Jadakiss

  Fall, Rapper, Security Guards

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• Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

  Nancy Farmer

  Giving Up, Fall, Giants

  Nancy Farmer (2015). “The Sea of Trolls”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

  Tom Berenger

  Notebook, Fall, Done

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