Fall Quotes

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

~ Stella Young

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

~ Brian Cox

Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

~ François Lelord

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

~ Ray Bradbury

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

~ Jerry Saltz

In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.

~ Paul Revere

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

~ John Berger

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

~ Joseph Story

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

~ Rafael Vinoly

All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.

~ John Shimkus

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

~ Robert Browning

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

~ Joel Edgerton

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

~ Howard Jacobson

I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

~ Shemar Moore

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

~ Maimonides

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

~ Orville Wright

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

~ Lilly Singh

You can assume that the leaf you see let go of a branch and fall towards the ground has never been considered by any being but yourself. Catch it in your hand - or, even better, keep walking until one falls into your reach naturally - and it will have spent its whole time on the planet without ever touching the ground, only because of you.

~ Eliot Schrefer

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

~ Andrea Dworkin

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

~ Georg Büchner

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

~ Marcus Buckingham

Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside that's the real reason that the relationships continue.

~ James Mcavoy

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

~ James Buchan

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

~ Lech Walesa

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

~ Colin Powell

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

~ Martin Scorsese

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

~ Paul Harris

I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God.

~ Tim Tebow

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?

~ Steve Harvey

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

~ Ed Koch

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

~ Charles Babbage

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

~ Tacitus

I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

~ Gabby Douglas

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

~ Placido Domingo

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

~ Armstrong Williams

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

~ Evel Knievel

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

~ Lao Tzu

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

~ Francis Bacon