To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.
Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God’s children will one day fall.
I do not know why sorrows come and burning teardrops fall; I only know God still is God And watches over all.
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.
What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Adam: [In a decomposed state and trying to say Beetlejuice's name three times] BEH... [his mouth falls out]
Adam: [picks up a spider] Now that's a big fella. [spider almost falls out of his hand] Adam: Whoa!
I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.
When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.
Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
I'll sleep in my clothes sometimes. I sleep in my clothes all the time, actually - in my coat. I just hate getting changed for bed; I like the idea of falling asleep in a natural way.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
