Top 1200 Falling Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."

I've been accident-prone since I was a kid climbing trees and falling out. I've come off a few motorcycles.

The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost.

Even the most achieved life ends up in the hospital with your body and brain falling into pieces.

I find that falling in love is way more fun than just having that instant attraction that you have to maintain for a relationship.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it. What am I gonna do?

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.

The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

Trump's voters loathe Jeb Bush because their lives are falling apart, and they blame people like him.

They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.

The people of Mississippi can't just go home, shut down their small business, shut down their restaurants, shut down their gyms... and just think that you can come back six weeks from now, flip a switch and everything's gonna be fine. That's not the way the economy works.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.

If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.

I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

So, when you come down a big wave and everything's perfect, you make it to the shoulder and you kick out. But, when you come down and it closes out or you fall on the way down, then this massive, basically like an avalanche. just lands on you and it feels like a ton of bricks.

While I was busy reminiscing about my first day on earth, I had forgotten that I was falling to my death. Damned ADD.

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.

I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies.

Falling in love is an absolutely beautiful thing to go through, and why people shouldn't talk about it is beyond me.

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

What do you do when your world is falling apart? How do you hold onto the real and the rational? I think that's very relatable for people.

Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late.

Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

Id rather be seen the way I am now instead of falling over myself walking out of a club.

Voters must feel that that the burden of new housing is being shared equally and not falling disproportionately on any one group.

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.

I think the U.S. is falling behind. There's massive government initiatives going around the world and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.

The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.

You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

I just think falling in love and being married completely changes your life in so many ways.

Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability.

A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.