Virginia Woolf Quotes, Block Quotes, Fall Quotes

The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

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One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fall Quotes , Dancer Quotes

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Memories Quotes , Fall Quotes

I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Fall Quotes , Cutting Quotes

Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Wise Quotes , Fall Quotes

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Believe Quotes , Fall Quotes

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Liars Quotes , Fall Quotes

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Fall Quotes , Soul Quotes

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Fall Quotes , Passion Quotes

Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fall Quotes , Long Quotes

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.

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Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Fall Quotes , Sea Quotes

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Fall Quotes

Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Fall Quotes , Worry Quotes

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

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Tags : Alan Davies Quotes , Fall Quotes , Bridges Quotes

But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Fall Quotes , Mass Destruction Quotes

Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Fall Quotes

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Children Quotes , Fall Quotes

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

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Tags : Adelaide Crapsey Quotes , Fall Quotes , Tree Quotes

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Death Quotes , Fall Quotes

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Fall Quotes , Weight Quotes