Quotes with falling

  • When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.

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  • Iris Murdoch Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Confucius Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bronson Pinchot 'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.
    Bronson Pinchot
    American actor (1959 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro 2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to bequeath health care, equality, and brotherhood on mankind - imploded. The myth of an America embracing the leftist social agenda collapsed.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bret Harte An hour ago, a Star was falling. A star? There's nothing strange in that. No, nothing; but above the thicket, Somehow it seemed to me that God Somewhere had just relieved a picket.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Lord George Byron But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bruce Cockburn Catching the light and falling into dark
    And the world fades out like an overheard remark...
    In the falling dark
    In The Falling Dark (1976) Title track, In The Falling Dark (See also: John M
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Keith Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • A. S. Byatt Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.
    Possession (1990)
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Bob Ehrlich Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Helen Rowland Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Mario Puzo Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster.
    The Godfather
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Ann Beattie Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • André Gide Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Albert Einstein Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Beck I have a fear of heights, so falling off something very tall. But I've conquered a good amount of my fears. I guess most people would have the fear of getting up in front of a large audience of people and making a fool of themselves. I've gotten over that.
    On the Couch, NME
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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