(187 quotes found)
“A mighty oak has fallen in God's forest.”
Jerry Falwell
“With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.”
Saul Bellow
“I've fallen for you like a blind roofer”
Charlie Sheen
“I see the Fourfold Man; the Humanity in deadly sleep, / And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. / I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once / Before me.”
William Blake
“Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.”
Wallace Stevens
“A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef”
Proverb
“According to the map he had fallen three miles behind the front. We had therefore brought him down on enemy ground. Otherwise I should have one more victory to my credit. I was very proud of my success. After all, the chief thing is to bring a fellow down. It does not matter at all whether one is credited for it or not.”
Manfred Von Richthofen
“The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?”
Emile M. Cioran
“I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.”
“I've literally gotten out of my chair, lain on the floor and fallen sound asleep,”
Scott Adams
