Quotes of: Falls Keyword

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

Yiyun Li

When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it.

Guinean

Today is my thirtieth birthday and I sit on the ocean wave in the schoolyard and wait for Kate and think of nothing. Now in the thirty-first year of my dark pilgrimage on this earth and knowing less than I ever knew before, having learned only to rec...

Walker Percy

To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.

Congolese

A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.

Zen

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.

Collected Fictions

God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God.

Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies

Static people don’t fall! You fell because you were either climbing, or running. This is a sign that you are on track. Don’t stop where you fall; rise up and do it again!

Daily Drive 365

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled

Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past.

Dermaphoria

Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.

Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

Fight Club

You called me and said you were home and wanted to go out for a pizza." "I did? What time is it?" "Time for pizza," [Catarina] replied.

The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

[...] when you know, you know. And you don't fight it. You don;t deny the inevitable. You free fall because you know there's someone there to catch you on the other side.

Fear of Falling

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

The Fall of Hyperion

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

Fangirl

As if we'd fall for an obvious trap like that," said Happy. "We're not going to fall for an obvious trap like that, are we? Oh shit, we are. I want to go home.

Ghost of a Chance

Scripture said that "pride goes before fall". Just let pride go alone. Don't go in its company, else fall pursues both of you!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes