A Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

He who walks straight rarely falls.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Falls Rarely Straight Walks

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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian - Artist
April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519

There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.

Jack London

Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls

John Greenleaf Whittier

If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

Josef Pieper

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

Victor Hugo

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

Victor Hugo

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

Alain de Botton

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

Brandon Sanderson

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

Bill Gates

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

Albert Camus

A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.

Christoph Waltz

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

Sam Kean

In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.

Malcolm Gladwell

Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.