Fallen Quotes - Page 5

• A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Peace, War

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton". Vol.I: Non-Fiction,

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• He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.
  [He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.]

  George Herbert

  Helping

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• He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

  Douglas Horton

  Bending, Lifting Others, Superior Man

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• I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

  Desmond Morris

  Angel, Men, Fellow Man

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• Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Birthday, Motivation

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• The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

  Johan Huizinga

  Hero, Titles, Survivor

  Jakob Herman Huizinga, Johan Huizinga (1969). “Dutch civilisation in the seventeenth century: and other essays”

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• Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Jobs, Real, Mexico

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• We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

  George Wald

  Love Life, Mirrors, Lovely

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• October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.

  Hal Borland

  New Horizons, October, Leafs

  Hal Borland (2014). “This Hill, This Valley”, p.255, Open Road Media

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• I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

  Samuel Dash

  Educational, Believe, Support

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• The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

  John Keegan

  Years, Islam, West

  "Foreign Correspondent" with Jennifer Byrne, (ABC, Australia), October 10, 2001.

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• Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Doctors, Sight, Blood

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• I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

  Adolph Green

  Village, Today, Steps

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• Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

  Eamon de Valera

  War, America, Proud

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• During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Country, Past, Two

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• My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

  Katherine Dunham

  People, Eclectic Style, Caribbean

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• Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Done, Economic, Given

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• Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

  Donna Brazile

  Office, African American, Income

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• I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

  Louis Leakey

  Python, Feet, Tree

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• The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Angel, Men, Enemy

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.265, Collector's Library

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• I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.

  Philip Pullman

  Party, Stupidity, Mystery

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Circles, Bars, Opinion

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sorry, Men, Track

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• Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.

  Suzy Kassem

  Fall, Followers, World

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