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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it...

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about philosophy, advice, mind

And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Quote by Aeschylus about wisdom, grace, despair, sleep, pain, heart, god

If Don Giovanni does not possess low notes rich enough, ...

If Don Giovanni does not possess low notes rich enough, then the balance is broken, and, as a consequence, all the work that preceded falls to pieces.

Quote by Placido Domingo about consequences, wealth, work

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the...

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about violence, truth

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland...

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

Quote by Jim Fowler about contentment

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade...

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Quote by Jim Fowler about school

I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there.

Quote by Jim Fowler about family, faith

Air strikes always overshoot the target, artillery always...

Air strikes always overshoot the target, artillery always falls short.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, air

The lens that falls is always the most expensive.

The lens that falls is always the most expensive.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography

The whiter the hat the deeper the mud hole that it falls...

The whiter the hat the deeper the mud hole that it falls into.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys

Fix one spot in the music and another spot falls apart.

Fix one spot in the music and another spot falls apart.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about music

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If...

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Quote by Camille Paglia about man, identity, mother

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there...

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. Peter Pan

Quote by Sir James Matthew Barrie about fairy tales, children, faith

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

Quote by Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland about opinion, face

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of...

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

Quote by Eugene Sue about virtue, poverty, rocks

When a star falls, there is a run in the night's stocking.

When a star falls, there is a run in the night's stocking.

Quote by Ramon Gomez de la Serna about stars, celebrity, night

Fate is like gravity. You can jump up and down until your heart’s content, but the earth still falls into the sun, and the sun still courses through the galaxy, both indifferent to your short-lived and insignificant defiance.

Quote by Mark Amend about destiny, sun, defiance, earth, heart, thinking, contentment

Mild automn as your soul Shy the light falls smoothly from hands Smelling like an abundant autumn, a late moment The love is mighty and gentle as your soul And fields full of thought and flowers wept in secret What eager young man seems...

Quote by Emilia Dabu about poetry, autumn, soul, flowers, word, light, secret, thinking, god, moment

Nothing to understand: you open the book passing your soul over its old parchment a pale light starts suddenly flowing a poisoned spear falls down bloody wars corpses ever more deeply slashed in ever greater numbers until they are...

OQuote by Otilia Nicolescu about poetry, numbers, nothing, light, soul, old, olderness, death, spirit, contentment

Far Away: Who would've had so much darkness To be, to have been said? Who sees how death comes In my spirit the grim reaper? Night falls from somewhere, far away, Moving the ray from darkness into my temple The demon runs, splitting...

Quote by Aura Christi about poetry, hunger, air, word, earth, time, night, books, home, death

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