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“I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.”

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.”

Knows God Feelings Fallen Again And Again God Knows

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how durst men forge our Saviour's words "eternal death " into so horrible a meaning? And even if he did use other words, and seem to countenance such a meaning for them (and what witness have we that He did, except that of men whose ignorance or prejudice might well have interpreted these words wrongly as they did so many others?”

Ifs Men Believe Wells Use Seems Might I Believe Ignorance Creatures Eternal Prejudice Horrible Witness Fallen Saviour Countenance

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.”

May Said Heaven Virtue Produce Originals Useless Fallen Hypocrisy Application Hypocrite Assembly Parades Sloth Rust Counterfeit Procession Ostentatious

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“William 'Big Bill' Rockefeller, who sold cancer 'cures' from a medicine wagon, taught him to leap into his arms from a tall chair. One time his father held his arms out to catch him but pulled them away as little John jumped. The fallen son was told sternly, 'Remember, never trust anyone completely, not even me.'”

Littles Bigs Remember Father Taught Son Arms Bills Medicine Cancer Cures Fallen Chairs Leap Tall One Time Never Trust Wagons Never Trust Anyone Cancer Cure

Author:Jim Marrs

“When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?”

Men Black Blood Mortals Fallen Spells Back Again

Book:Aeschylus II: The Oresteia

Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia

“The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.”

Earth Heaven Mankind Holy Rain Woods Wounds Fallen Yearning Herds Flocks Rite Wedlock Amorous Demeter

Book:Aeschylus

Source: Aeschylus

“I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.”

Matter Reading Realizing Doubt Changed Revolution Essentials Russia Fallen Soviet Regimes Gogol

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ...Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years -- I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.”

Thinking Trying Years Wells Kind May Children Enough Use Together Lines Party Awareness Talent Highest Solutions Our Children Crisis Climate Fallen Behalf Urgency Sense Of Urgency

Author:Al Gore

“We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.”

Knows Should States Fall Love Is Cities Glory Should Have And Love Species Betrayal Fallen Faded Vigilant Reciting

Book:Italian Days

Source: Italian Days

“The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.”

Stories Form Events Fallen Short Story

Author:William Saroyan

“If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.”

Ifs Long Safe Enormous Fallen If I Could Abyss Parachutes

Author:Christian Morgenstern

“Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.”

Mind Age Past Poor Century Eternal Fallen Temples Grants Pants Altars Melting Stumbling Mirages Refreshments

Book:At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

Source: At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

“To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!”

Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child

“Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.”

Should Earth Lying Dies Fall Tears Proud Sorrow Fame Mountain Ears Shame Tales Warrior Aliens Dumb Fallen Insult Woe Foe Scorn Solemn Bleeding Hush Heathen Haughty

Author:William Somervile

“Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.”

Children Has Beens House Race Fine Sorrow Equal Labor Tables Embrace Ill Israel Curse Fallen Locked Adversaries Lament Fervor Impartiality

Author:John L. Lewis

“If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?”

Ifs Men Looks Moments Form Voice Judgment Appeals Fallen Enlightened Statesmen Prophetic Deserted Baffled

Author:James Martineau

“A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.”

Fall Produce Weight Remains Raised Height Fallen Gravity

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.”

Firsts Kind Sea Mets Rivers Extremes Fallen

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.”

Ifs Knows Should Doe War Ends Seems Asks Ought One Day Rate Fallen

Author:Cesare Pavese

“Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?”

Ifs Men Firsts Conditions Havens Weakness Raises Convinced Fallen

Book:Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint

Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint

“A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.”

Bears Remains Fallen Worn Teddy Teddy Bear

Author:Charlotte Gray

“We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.”

Littles Body Forget Hair Concern Fallen Contemplation Shrinks

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over head and ears in it,carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:this is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,I hold to be damnable and heretical:and so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will,my uncleToby fell into it.”

Men Kind Sometimes Love Is Opinion Ears Fallen Carrie Plato Implications Recurring Plato S Deeply In Love

Author:Laurence Sterne

“I was one of the first people to almost actually vomit over hearing the use of the phrase "family values" and I pride myself on never having fallen for the idea that Barbara Bush was sweet and grandmotherly. I met Barbara Bush and, as I expected, she was a tank with eyes, not a nice person at all and why should that blow anybody away?”

People Should Firsts Persons Ideas Use Eye Values Nice Sweet Pride Mets Blow Hearing Expected Fallen Phrases Tanks Family Values Barbara Nice Person

Author:Paula Poundstone

“It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.”

Believe Self Purpose Easy Type Promise Great Things Preparation Deception Fallen Self Deception Dupes Hull House

Book:The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness

Source: The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness

“When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.”

Believe Running Sin Vision Creatures Goodness Devil Angel Filled Fallen Sublime Majesty Transcendent Fallen Angels Catalogues

Book:Frankenstein

Source: Frankenstein

“Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.”

Source: The Complete Fiction Collection vol III

“When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.”

Self Running Unions Fallen Contempt Soviet Soviet Union Brezhnev

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.”

Thinking Needs Two Three Speak Silence Weak Hatred Abuse Slave Dare Fallen Shrinks Scoffing

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?”

Trying Light Dark Broken Moon Gold Fallen Perfume Floats Petals Lagoons

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.”

People Way Years Looks Fall Courses Fallen Plastic Surgery Falling Apart Ageing Plastic Surgery

Author:Nora Ephron

“A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"”

Said Enemy Soldier Fallen

Author:Plutarch

“Were it not for the mind change of Sai devotees the world would already have fallen into complete chaos. The deterioration of mind and man has been very rapid and abrupt, even precipitous during the last fifteen years. That the world is not in total destruction is due to the change of mind of Sai devotees and to Sai's grace.”

Men World Years Mind Has Beens Lasts Grace Destruction Chaos Dues Fallen Fifteen Rapids Fifteen Years Devotee Deterioration Mind Changing

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“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

“I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.”

Men Trying Self Helping Fall Christ Support Heard Fallen Exception Good Man Backsliding Self Support

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.”

Life Helping Home Design Illusion Symbols Fallen Goods Cash Now And Then Coincidence Parallels Salesman

Author:Glen Duncan

“The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark.”

Night Dark Cities Filled Rounds Smoke Fallen Disorder Ashes Timeless Speculation Deities Dark Night Extremity Roaming Portents

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.”

Men Night Fallen Iron Iron Man

Book:The Iron Man

Source: The Iron Man

“Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists, anarcho-primitivists, and so forth (The "GA Movement") have fallen under such heavy influence from the left that their rebellion against civilization has to great extent been neutralized. Instead of rebelling against the values of civilization, they have adopted many civilized values themselves and have constructed an imaginary picture of primitive societies that embodies these civilized values.”

Real Values Left Technology Influence Movement Civilization Green Heavy Fallen Rebellion Civilized Imaginary Primitive Adopted Anarchist

Author:Theodore Kaczynski

“Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.”

Opportunity Given Failure Thee Fallen Being Thankful Lament

Author:Ivan Panin

“What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.”

Care Growth Nature Responsibility Ignorance Eras Fallen Materialism Providing Consumption

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.”

Church Sin Deals Known Structure Fallen Ministry Formal Enabling Interruptions

Book:The Life-Giving Church

Source: The Life-Giving Church

“Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.”

Feels Years Wells Stills Sometimes Reading Happened Lifetime Rational Fallen Explanation Thirteen Thirteen Year Olds

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.”

Kind Littles Seems Race Emotion Wind Adversity Fallen Sail

Author:Wes Walz

“I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Loses Sleep Morning Goes On Stronger Tired Fallen

Author:Milton Resnick

“Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.”

Should Heaven Forget Happened Revolution Victim China Disaster Fallen Torture Repeats Folly Museums Inhuman Proletariat

Author:Ba Jin

“Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange our experiences...Experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it is continuing to fall into bottomlessness.”

People Ifs Looks Stories Values Fall Wish Ability Taken Possession Tales Fallen Encounters Continuing Idealism Embarrassment

Author:Walter Benjamin

“Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. With the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended.”

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