Quotation Explorer - 'Falls'

Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality. - Marty Rubin
I'm a little panicky when I realize he's not here. It's a lot easier to push down my doubt when he's with me. When I can see those eyes the color of melted chocolate and hear his deep voice that falls over me like a warm blanket on a cold night. - Rick Yancey
Summer rushes in on the heels of spring, eager to take her turn; and then she dances with wild abandon. But the time soon comes when she gratefully falls, exhausted and sated, into the auburn arms of autumn. - Cristen Rodgers
I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. - Horace
The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain. - Marty Rubin
A white cloth falls on your heart; How beautiful you are - The winter loves us, because only lovers have a pure heart. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
When darkness falls upon you, turn your face to the sun and your shadows will fall behind you. - Daniel Wicomb
I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. - G. K. Chesterton
For some folks fate has set countless falls and a fewer loves. If they farewell faith, then, farewell their chance of lifelong happiness. - Darmie Orem
The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, itturns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits theground it gets all mushed up. So it’s only absolutely perfect when it’s falling through the air,this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!. - David Mitchell
The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do. - Marty Rubin
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. - Julia Quinn
Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. - George Orwell
Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.It falls upon her.Love is like dying. - Stephen King
The more a man understands the world, the more he falls in love with everyone and everything. - Debasish Mridha
i can accept FAILURE,everyone falls at something.but what i can't accept is NOT TRYING. - Micheal jordan
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
With every leaf that falls the tree loses a memory. - Marty Rubin
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot
See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room. - Janet Fitch
There is something incredibly beautiful about a woman, who knows herself, she can't break, she just falls but in every fall she rises, past who she was before. - Nikki Rowe
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. - Helen Fielding
I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's going to be up all night. - Steven Wright
She would only let you know her, little by little ~ never giving too much away but willing to share the small parts that make up her life, she falls slowly like that ~ love isn't a maybe thing in her eyes & her heart is the prize, she knows her worth and she will withstand the wait. - Nikki Rowe
No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it. - Richelle E. Goodrich
When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since early childhood, a heat in the blood that leaves me flushed and unsteady, dreaming in daylight. - Victoria Lamb
Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting. - Murasaki Shikibu
Love falls in love with love; comes like an echo sounding back, searches its mirrored shadow within a look. - Mocco Wollert
The universe falls in love with you; that's why you got invitation to come here to make the universe joyful and beautiful with your intention and love. - Debasish Mridha
To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die. - Muriel Barbery
The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this. - D. Antoinette Foy
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the suppression of feminism.Under my definition, helping oppressed women in other countries falls outside the scope of the movement's interests. - Mike Adams
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. - James M. Barrie
The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall. - Ernesto Che Guevara
In spite of its alluring name, the welfare state stands or falls by compulsion. It is compulsion imposed upon us with the state’s power to punish noncompliance. Once this is clear, it is equally clear that the welfare state is an evil the same as every restriction of freedom. - Wilhelm Röpke
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. - Colin Powell
Don’t settle… wait for the one who treats you like an investment; not a test drive. Someone who inspires you to be at your best… One who looks beyond your outer beauty and falls in love with your soul. - Steve Maraboli
Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories. - Aniruddha Sastikar
Everything falls into place if you trust yourself enough to jump. - Teresa Marie Garcia
A true leader leads his people from the front and if he falls into a pit the people will surely not follow. - Amit Abraham
The cold and crystal clear water, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul... - El Fuego
Perhaps a human simply falls back into himself upon the disintegration of his physical body, and continues to take form within the self of himself, simply returning from whence he came. - C. JoyBell C.
The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet. - J. Raymond
You must know everything that God has forbidden you so as to be able to avoid it, for the one who does not recognize evil falls into it. - Imam Abdallah ibn Alawi Al-Haddad
A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There are persons who always find a hair in their plate or soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in. - Christian Friedrich Hebbel
The sky does not despair when a star falls; it makes room for a new one. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Personal Brand Focus: Immediately you try to reach the masses with your brand you dilute your brand's power and falls into the average zone. You cease to be remarkable - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. - Dorianne Laux
When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heartAnd your plans are upset and your world falls apart,Remember God's ready and waiting to shareThe burden you find much to heavy to bear--So with faith, "Let Go and Let GOD" lead your wayInto a brighter and less troubled day - Helen Steiner Rice
When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within. - Johnathan Jena
Be the woman who falls so deeply in love with herself that nothing can stop her from loving all of life! - Erin Fall Haskell
If pure, eternal, unconditional Love is the foundation on which you stand, even if all else falls away, you are still valuable because you are loved. - Amy Lichtenhan
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order.
The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up. - Habeeb Akande
When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present. - Brandi L. Bates
Illusion (maya) cannot enter where there is ‘light’ (enlightenment, awareness). Once darkness falls, illusion will enter there. The Gnani Purush can arrange for your illusion to go away permanently. - Dada Bhagwan
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in. - Mother Teresa
In search for love, where love is some Oxytocin,seeking happiness related to Orexin. Sensations of glory, motivation and success, They are all some precious chemicals. Our mind is greedy, and falls into depression when he is no longer satisfied. LIFE IS A DRUG STORE WE ARE ALL JUNKIES. - Omar EL KADMIRI
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. - Che Guevara
No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. - Greg Kincaid
If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written? - Neil Leckman
Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground and rots, never finding appreciation in the taste of mouths. - Anthony Liccione
When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns. - Ajahn Brahm
Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that dripsfrom my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and itthrobs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper. - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
When darkness falls and eyes stay shutA chain of voices opens up.Let wax not wane give breath to death.p.s. Shhh" -(Dead Beautiful) - Yvonne Woon
Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between! - David Letterman
When the veil of the knower falls away the creative force of discovery guides your way - each moment is revealed as new. - Jon Bernie
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. - Leonardo da Vinci
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. - Nelson Mandela
Every time I am in the dark and a bit of light falls on me, I see a bit of you in my shadows. There is always a bit of you in every song I hear, in every thought I conceive, in every rain that I drench in, in every star that I stare at in the sky every night and in every breeze that touches me. - Akshay Vasu
A humble man rises to great heights and an arrogant man falls deep into the pit he tries to dig for others. - Amit Abraham
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? - Henry David Thoreau
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein
He falls in love because he doesnt want to. - Gwen Calvo
Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives. - Sunday Adelaja
When you kiss, my world falls apartHeaven comes down to woo my heart - Munia Khan
I cannot do anything fake; that is why even when I sleep with a prostitute, she falls in love with me. - M.F. Moonzajer
When every piece falls into place, it's like a dance, a delicate but powerful balancing act. The art of holding on and letting go at the same time. - Kristin Bartley Lenz
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. - Lucille Ball
Everything falls apart when you do one stupid thing - R.Gayan Priyankara
Love yourself and eveything else falls into line. You really do have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. - Haruki Murakami
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. - Alain de Botton
When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U...!!! - Abhijeet Sawant
There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul. - Virginia Alison
It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning. - Jodi Picoult
The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high.
When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence. - Jocelyn Murray
Once, I took the penny whistle you gave me and discovered a spotby the roaring falls where I could play as loud as I wanted. I lay in the bifurcated trunkof a low-slung birch tree. The sun peeked through applauding leaves, high overhead. - Kristen Henderson
The way the rain falls then rises back into the clouds only to fall again reminds me of love. - Sara Secora
People don’t really have much of a choice when the heart falls. I’m lucky enough that mine just so happened to fall for you, Misty.—Dylan to Misty in, When the Heart Falls - Kimberly Lewis
In times of war, the law falls silent.Silent enim leges inter arma - Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all... something we can all enjoy together - Melanie Charlene
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place." - Jennifer Aniston
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. - G. K. Chesterton
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life... - Evelyn Waugh
Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, anybody that falls in love is either unconscious or dead. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place. - Pope John Paul II
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball
A wind starts to blow, without feelings,A song falls in love, without singing,A life will begin in melodies of the strings,May you find all pleasure of the light,God bless, Warrior of Light! - Santosh Kalwar
Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball
a story is ready when it falls from your face - Steve Aylett
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve. - William Shakespeare
Worry is interest paid on trouble before is falls due.
God, change the burden of my heart to be like a gentle rain which falls equally on all - AbdulAziz Mohammed
Niagara Falls is a magnificent fall of dancing, singing, glowing, and flowing liquid love that exists to reconnect broken hearts. - Debasish Mridha
If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it. - Marty Rubin
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life. - Terence McKenna
If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound? - David Simon
If a tree falls in the woods, and there's no one there to hear it, how will the Environmentalists react? - Anonymous
You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in this seemingly hopeless pile, is hidden deep within. The burning embers incarnate the perpetual desire to go from spark to flame. - Akilnathan Logeswaran
Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter. - Lone Alaskan Gypsy
Many a petal has yet to fall before the last one falls. - Marty Rubin
Here's to adrenaline. Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol. Here's to treasured pain and purple rain. Here's to chasing our souls, burning across to sky. Here's to drinking the ash as it falls, and not asking why. - Virginia Petrucci
Every endeavor, large or small, rises and falls on leadership. - Jeffrey Fry
Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. - Fay Weldon
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. - Martin Mull
He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any winged creature (or mechanism) tries to fly on just one wing, it falls to the ground. In a similar way, when we human beings try to wing it with just one faculty, we crash. - Scott Hahn
When The Pyramid falls, the other cities will follow in short order. Nature's balance will be restored and Man will finally return to solitude. - Compton Gage
I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. - Christopher Hitchens
Ernest Ransom: These are not the best if times...as your editorials remind us A.A. Hayes : Why not get a Democrat back in there? Ernest Ransom: These are not the worst of times eithers Dingley Falls - Michael Malone
Worry:Interest paid on trouble before it falls due. - Dean Ing
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars. - James Hillman
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When one is at the edge and falls then it’s a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that’s what’s life is about. - Amit Abraham
If we really want to know, who we are and recognize our identity, we have to find out the identity of the others. By making friends with the others, we are able to make friends with ourselves. At that moment, we can sense how everything falls into place. ( Steps in the unknown" ) - Erik Pevernagie
The mouse is a sober citizen who knows that the grass grows in order that mice may store it as underground haystacks, and that snow falls in order that mice may build subways from stack to stack… - Aldo Leopold
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. - James M. Barrie
Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity. - Euginia Herlihy
The life of man is like the life of a blade of grass. Death comes, the grass withers, and behold life ends, and the flower falls of all greatness and all worldly goods. - Alfonso Maria de Liguori
What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus. - Beth Moore
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. - Émile Zola
My heart is one part predatorAnd one part saint!Most of it is crazyAnd a little bit too saneIt falls for allBut beats for noneIt’s one part brokenStill shoots like a machine gun! - Jaishree Garg
A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Every man is an evil until he falls in love. - M.F. Moonzajer
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation - Nelson Mandela
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination. - Eugène Ionesco
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.
If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever. - Genereux Philip
Oft in the stilly night,Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,Fond memory brings the lightOf other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years,The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shown Now dimmed and gone,The cheerful hearts now broken.(from When the Splendor Falls by Laurie McBain) - Thomas Moore
Don’t worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rain Falls Because sky can no longer handle its heaviness..Just like Tears,It falls because the heart can no longer handle the pain.. ! - Dinesh Kumar Biran
There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego! - Mehmet Murat ildan
But that's the thing, how you feel about the place that's home. About its sky, its air, its smell, the color of the light, the way the rain falls (or doesn't), whether it hot or cold. - Laura McBride
When the apple ripens it falls, it doesn't know what else to do. - Marty Rubin
As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart. - Joshua Teya
Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl. - Evan Esar
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot
I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other. - William Shakespeare
Loving yourself comes first from there everything else falls into place - Shellie Palmer
If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die. - Mik Everett
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face. - Stephen Fry
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place. - Jennifer Aniston
France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. - Billy Wilder
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. - Haim Ginott
A time when sky blue love bids farewell to the day and before dusk falls, the sunset ignites the smouldering embers of the moonlit soul... - Virginia Alison
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. - Evan Esar
People can learn a lot from one another if their need to be right falls away. - K.L. Jordaan
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