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I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you don’t fall into the familiar patterns of your past.
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!
I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.
The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.
If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.
I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around.
Five inches of snow in five inch heels, you can't look sexy and you can't look like you know what you're doing because you're fall.
I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.
One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)
God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.
We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.
When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.
He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.
There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
In America, we've spent trillions of dollars overseas while allowing our own infrastructure to fall into total disrepair and decay.
It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.
Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.
This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.
Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it.
Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.
There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.
I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.
As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise...a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?
There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.
She don't know how much I need her She don't know I'd fall apart Without her kiss without her touch Without her faithful lovin' arms
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.
In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.
I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.