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My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.
Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.
As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.
Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.
Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.
Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too.
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.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.
There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.
- Just do you know, Lenny this isn't a date. - Then what is it? - It's me falling sorry for you, because you're such a loser.
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
I've very fortunate to come from a great family who are extremely supportive of me and I'll always have them to fall back on.
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.
For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be....Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.
I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government.
When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.
Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.
Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.
There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.
The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.
The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.
Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.
You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.
Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.
I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.
As our net worth falls, so does our self-worth. Ironically, it's when we don't have it that we most feel we have to flaunt it.
For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.
You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.
I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
The kinds of cases that fall at the end of pregnancy are often the most heartbreaking, painful decisions for families to make.
Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.