Fall Quotes - Page 16

• What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.

  Zig Ziglar

  Wells

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from May 06, 2014

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• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  Sallust

  Community, Society, Pieces

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• Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

  Arthur Keith

  Country, Civilization, Mind

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Reflection, Darkness, Opponents

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• Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you're a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.

  Megan Abbott

  Kids, Night, Reflection

  Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

  James Joyce

  Temptation, Soul, Devil

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.129, e-artnow

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• Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

  George Ellery Hale

  Squares, Rays, Earth

  George Ellery Hale (1931). “Signals from the Stars”

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• From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts of Rays whereof that Light consists, when by their several Refrangibilities they are separated from one another, do tinge Paper or any other white Body whereon they fall. For those Colours ... are unchangeable, and whenever all those Rays with those their Colours are mix'd again, they reproduce the same white Light as before.

  Isaac Newton

  White, Light, Sun

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light”, p.98, Library of Alexandria

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• Everyone is always looking for their beloved. Well, why can't you be your own beloved? Fall in love with yourself.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Falling In Love, Love You, Healing

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• Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.

  Taylor Swift

  Autumn, Lovely, Pieces

  Song: All Too Well, Album: Red, 2012

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• And it's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard rain gonna fall.

  Bob Dylan

  Rain, Hard

  'A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall' (1963 song)

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• O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Men, Long, Soul

  "No worst, there is none" l. 9 (written 1885)

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• Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature: when it blows, there is only wind; when it rains, there is only rain; when the clouds pass, the sun shines through. If you open yourself to the Tao, you are at one with the Tao and you can embody it completely. If you open yourself to insight, you are at one with insight and you can use it completely. If you open yourself to loss, you are at one with loss and you can accept it completely. Open yourself to the Tao, then trust your natural responses; and everything will fall into place.

  Laozi

  Rain, Loss, Blow

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• 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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• When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

  Bill Frist

  People, Safety, Security

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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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• I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

  Jake Epstein

  Falling In Love, Teenager, Ordinary

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• How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

  Pat McBride

  Color, Perspective, Important

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• While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Lying, Heart

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• Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its aspects. "Free" is the most vital part of Freemasonry. It means freedom of thought and expression, freedom of spiritual and religious ideals, freedom from oppression, freedom from ignorance, superstition, vice and bigotry, freedom to acquire and possess property, to go and come at pleasure, and to rise or fall according to will of ability.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Religious, Ignorance

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• The anterior cingulate fires up as the end result of a series of events. First, estrogen levels fall. Meanwhile, serotonin, the feel-good neurotransmitter, also decreases. The deficiency in serotonin causes the anterior cingulate gyrus to fire up. To make things worse, just about this time the PFC tends to quiet down, which is why women may have a hard time focusing and controlling impulses. So we see emotional difficulties, intensified feelings of sadness, and disturbed sleep.

  Daniel Amen

  Sadness, Sleep, Emotional

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• And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

  Bram Stoker

  Beautiful, Snow, Dawn

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.359, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.

  Ally Condie

  Crush, Firsts, First Time

  Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.272, Penguin

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• It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Art, Ignorance

  Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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