“It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.” Has BeensLandDistanceFallenGorgeousAcresGorgeous Women Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.” WritingHas BeensOrderLanguageFallenLoser Author:Pramoedya Ananta Toer
“Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.” LifeWellsHas BeensLyingEvilLostDealsCompanyCareersPlansCrimeChosenReputationFallenDamageGossipIdleRuinedViciousRumorSlanderDevastatedMaliciousIdle GossipRuined Life Author:Wayne D. Dosick
“In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.” IfsWorldHas BeensStillsIdeasAgeOrderDifferencesCompanyModernGeniusNeededRiversInventionFallenGrayBellsSolitaryTelephonesModern AgeGraham Bell Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.” MayHas BeensHandsSeemsMankindFallenTyrantsMurdererUpper Hand Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“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.” WorldYearsHas BeensDoneFactsAbleLeftForceBreakAirTerribleEssentialsOceanArmyObviousFallenGutsSovietCould Have BeenSlaughter Author:Winston Churchill
“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.” ChildrenHas BeensHouseRaceFineSorrowEqualLaborTablesEmbraceIllIsraelCurseFallenLockedAdversariesLamentFervorImpartiality Author:John L. Lewis