A Quote by E. B. White

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

E. B. White

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Apart Back Even Excuse Fall Human Life Middle Sneeze Technical Use Will

Quote Author

E. B. White
American - Writer
July 11, 1899 - October 1, 1985

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

John Green

Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

Mark Nepo

Most of us have participated in the trust exercise in which one person falls back and is caught by a peer. Even if the catch is made a hundred times in a row, the trust is broken forever if the friend lets you fall the next time as a joke. Even if he swears he is sorry and will never let you fall again, you can never fall back without a seed of doubt.

Rafe Esquith

Bad things are always going to happen in life; People will eventually hurt you, but you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.

Chris Brown

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

Vernor Vinge

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

Bono

I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.

Sergio Martinez

As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

Bill Courtney

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

Nikki Giovanni

Occasionally, well-intentioned legislation can fall apart because of a few misplaced words or technical language that was left out.

Chris Sununu

We were built to fall apart and fall back together.

Taylor Swift

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

Judy Blume

Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.

Tabitha Suzuma

Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together

Colleen Hoover

We wouldn't ever sit down and pretend that our friendship didn't fall apart back in the late '80s. It wasn't like there was a massive bust-up. We just drifted apart.