Fall Quotes - Page 15

• When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

  Laozi

  Country, Body, Steps

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• If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

  Laozi

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

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• We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear up at the root and topple like a crown, The pine crack at the base - we had to watch them all. The ash, the lovely cedar. We had to watch them fall. They went so softly under the loud flails of air, Before that fury they went down like feathers, With all the hundred springs that flowered in their hair, and all the years, endured in all the weathers - To fall as if they were nothing, as if they were feathers.

  May Sarton

  Strong, Spring, Struggle

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• The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Fighting, Winning, Law

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.308, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Love, Curves, Design

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• I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it

  Anne Bronte

  Stars, Thinking, Doctors

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive.

  Alicia Machado

  Falling In Love, Couple, Men

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• Over the past decade or so, you have seen the flip side of that as you've seen stock prices have come down a lot relative to gold. Now you are getting a change where people are more comfortable holding gold because in the rear-view mirror it doesn't look so bad for gold. Bonds have not come down as much relative to gold, but I think the bond bubble is going to burst and will be falling for years too. And gold will look that much better.

  Peter Schiff

  Past, Thinking, People

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• Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

  Mary Wesley

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Play

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• I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

  Thomas Jane

  Falling In Love, Years, Cameras

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 20, 2004.

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• My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling in love. The feeling of euphoria is only temporary.

  Pattie Mallette

  Spiritual, Falling In Love, Real

  Pattie Mallette, A. J. Gregory (2012). “Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom”, p.84, Baker Books

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• Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life. I was beset on all sides by invisible worries. So, I shut myself in and slept. I slept until sleep exhausted me. Spring passed, summer ended, fall came, and then winter arrived. Then, it turned into another gentle spring.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Summer, Spring, Sleep

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• Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor.

  Basilea Schlink

  Running, Jesus, Race

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• How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

  Sonia Johnson

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Wish

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• My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Mouths, Parachutes

  Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• L I K E is like a bunch of dandelion seeds falling beautifully on the ground. It's a soft and good feeling but can come and go at any time
  L O V E is when those same dandelion seeds become firmly rooted sowing its seeds and growing another dandelion on the spot. It takes a lot of energy to grow the dandelion like protecting it from the wind and giving it water and sunlight but it becomes very precious and beautiful in the end

  Seohyun

  Beautiful, Wind, Giving

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• While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.

  Venerable Bede

  Rome, World, Coliseum

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• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  Walter Lang

  Animal, Ghouls, Law

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• There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler has to resign. He doesn’t have to resign. You take all the supports out from under him; he falls. No matter what he wants to do. This is the distinction in the analyses between nonviolent coercion in which he has to resign, but he’s forced into it, and disintegration when the regime simply falls apart. There’s nobody left with enough power to resign.

  Gene Sharp

  Mistake, Thinking, Egypt

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• When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of our daily lives – it’s unfaked folk art. The dancers, crashing wave upon wave into those falls, have a happy insane spirit that recalls a unique moment in American life – the time we did the school play or we were ready to drown at a swimming meet. The last time most of us were happy in that way.

  Arlene Croce

  Art, School, Swimming

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• There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

  Stanley Crouch

  Mean, Elements, World

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• I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

  Julie Gregory

  Pride, Blue, Wind

  Julie Gregory (2003). “Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood”, Bantam

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• I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something. A coup de foudre – a bolt of lightning. It’s fun to get knocked out that way!

  Iris Apfel

  Song, Falling In Love, Fun

  " "Iris Apfel: the muse of New York" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2012.

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• It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

  Caroline Knapp

  Way, Ruining Everything, Happened

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.9, Dial Press

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