As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
I don't usually have time for TV. When I get home at night, I just want to fall asleep.
Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.
To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
On 'Prison Break,' I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There were always these great mouthfuls of words that would fall out!
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.
Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
