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“If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.”

Ifs Might Fall Expression Leap

Author:Lisa Loeb

“When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.”

Hands Fall Imagination Expression Horror Strikes Fearful Bent

Book:The works of John Donne

Source: The works of John Donne

“To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.”

Ifs Love Feels Matter Lying Fall Expression Silent Leaving Appearance Impression Curious Fallen Melancholy Vulgar Solemn Messy Being Loved Cathedrals Complacent Uneasiness

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.”

Wells Eye Fall Expression Insulting Loaded Kicking Pistols Blueberries Hissing

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you're wearing an animal costume and something bad happens, your facial expression doesn't change. The animal is deadpan the whole time. If you're skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion. It's just a stoic gorilla, wildly falling down a hill, out of control.”

Ifs Whole Happens Fall Animal Emotion Expression Suits Hills Costumes Falling Down Skiing Stoic Facial Gorillas Facial Expression

Author:Demetri Martin

“Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life and it really is like you're still there. That's why the music of our youth ends up being particularly powerful. The coming of age music that you grab a hold of as the symbol or the expression of your independence and hopes for the future and anger and rebellion or whatever it is you're feeling is so powerful for the rest of your life when you hear it.”

Stills Ends Moments Feelings Age Song Fall Interesting Powerful Youth Expression Like You Independence Symbols Rebellion Coming Of Age Rest Of Your Life Making Time Hope For The Future

Author:Jennifer Egan

“If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.”

Ifs Want Two Different Whole Moments Form Dies Fall Expression Wave Rising Life And Death Standpoint Different Expressions

Book:Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

“There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.”

Fall Boys Expression Horse Towns Get Back Bad Boy Falling Off

Author:Brock Lesnar

“No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.”

Firsts Country Government Form Fall Doubt Expression Industry Instance No Doubt Socialist Discontent Fall Back Conducting Gestapo Socialist Government

Book:Churchill: The Power of Words

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.”

Fall Talking Expression Distance Critical Freedom Of Expression Provocation

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'”

Men Fall Expression Falling Apart

Author:Jordin Sparks

“He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.”

Self Inspiration Joy Motivation Order Fall Expression Fellows Vanity Servant Arrogance Disappointed Pits Gratification Self Expression Self Gratification

Book:Moshe Safdie: Volume 1

Source: Moshe Safdie: Volume 1