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A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.
I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.
This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.
It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?
Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.
United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
People are amazed because I don't get much with the colds. Sometimes in the spring or in the fall, I'll get a little hay fever.
With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!
Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.
You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.
To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.
I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.
I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like.
To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
- But we can't help falling in love. - We can't help defecating either. But we can choose where and when we are going to do it.
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.
Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.
Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?
I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.
Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.
Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
If you fall, the truth will set you free. And when your heart can see just one thing in this life, we'll set out on the journey.
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?
Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk?
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.