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“The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.”

Fall Interest Worst Particular Lows Deserve Rate Financial Credit Administration Panic Household Phases Housing Empowered Mortgage Interest Rate

Author:Mark Zandi

“And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep.”

Fall Sleep Gone Tears Lows Breaths Dear Beloved Dear Friend

Book:'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'

Source: 'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'

“The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.”

Light Night Fall Sun Sky Approach Lows Autumn Shade Twilight Dew Deck Blushing Fall Autumn Departing

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear, and every word evoked by the falling leaf and drinking deer, beside a thousand other facts so small and spoken by the stream in so low a voice the human ear cannot hear them.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.”

Men Humans Kind Fall Sex Levels Destiny Lows Scales Cultivation Kind Man

Book:Course of popular lectures: with three addresses, on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures: with three addresses, on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!”

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

“Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all”

Ifs Knows I Can Sometimes Fall Lows Come Up

Author:Bob Dylan

“[Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.”

Way Ends Fall Water Levels Sweet Music Is Lows Notes Streams Pool Rapids Margins Refined Whispering Tranquil Moss Trill

Author:John Muir

“Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men, that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character... Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself.”

Men Should Mind May Character Fall Higher Lows Ideals Every Man Insufficient

Author:Theodore Parker

“However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.”

Source: Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses

“The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.”

Fall Force Greater Wind Higher Lows Towers Lofty

Author:Horace

“Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single day, every single year. But if your standard is to be the best, there will be days when you fall short of that goal. It is okay to not win every game. The only problem would be if you allow a loss or a failure to change your standards. Keep your standards intact, keep the bar set high, and continue to try your very best every day to meet those standards. If you do that, you can always be proud of the work that you do.”

Ifs Trying Years Problem Would Be Fall Games Winning Easy Goal Loss Proud Lows Standards Okay Bars Being The Best Be Proud Mediocre

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations.”

Fall Lows Expectations Bigotry Low Expectations

Author:Gerald Chertavian

“The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls.”

Heart Soul Fall Grace Humility Mountain Lows Humble Covered Valleys Showers Corn Barren God's Grace

Author:Sam Worthington

“I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.”

Ifs I Can Ideas Self Country States America Fall Lost Class Willing Despair Lows Importance Independence Grants Adopted Inferiority Self-importance

Author:George III

“The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.”

Children Fall House Perfect Boys Gone Land Ambition Lows South Greed Corruption Cash Reporters Cunning Jet Zeus Saga Flair Private Jet Perfect Match Wild Ride

Author:Tom Brokaw

“This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.”

“Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.”

Men Fall Higher Lows

Book:Critical Writings

Source: Critical Writings

“States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to suffer economic decline; those with low and falling tax burdens are more likely to enjoy strong economic growth.”

States Suffering Fall Strong Enjoy Growth Economic Taxes Lows Burden Rising Decline Economic Growth Tax Burden

Author:Lawrence Kudlow

“Risk is not inherent in an investment; it is always relative to the price paid. Uncertainty is not the same as risk. Indeed, when great uncertainty - such as in the fall of 2008 - drives securities prices to especially low levels, they often become less risky investments.”

Fall Levels Risk Security Lows Paid Investment Uncertainty Relative Inherent Low Level

Author:Seth Klarman

“You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and fall. You know, they all, like Achilles, Icarus, you know, they all had their high points and their low points.”

Knows Kind Fall Lows Achilles Rise And Fall Icarus High Points Low Points

Author:Rachel Weisz

“Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.”

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

“We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.”

People Ifs Fall Figures Judging Politician Mets Lows Standards High Standards Public Figures

Author:Moby

“Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.”

Men Fall Force Levels Lows Blow Deception Insult Lowest Deceived Being Deceived

Book:Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition

Source: Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition

“The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.”

Light Fall Nature Silence Wonder Lows Died Clouds Boundaries Snow Branches Drank Dusk Interbeing

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and positively the last guest to leave the party, while the ground darkens, oozing night around your ankles, swallowing for ever that dropped contact lens, making you miss that low catch in the gully on the last ball of the last over.”

Long Book Lasts Night Fall Party Break Missing Lows Balls Contact Guests Lenses Positively Ankles Swallowing Contact Lenses

Book:The Gun Seller

Source: The Gun Seller

“Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.”

Long Together Night Fall Sound Voice Hours Dark Lows Stones Breaths Sigh Fountain Owl Dark Night

Book:British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

Source: British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.”

Stills Fall Limits Lows

Book:Ship of Fools: A Novel

Source: Ship of Fools: A Novel

“Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.”

Moments Light Faces Fall Sound Tears Kissing Lows Bird Garden Window Blessed Clouds Flying Adam Strokes Gathering Bird Flying

Author:Jenny Downham

“I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow! There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep To the subaqueous stillness of the sea, And floats forever in a moon-green pool, Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.”

Source: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

“She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite the falling snow.”

Earth Fall Hours Dark Sleep Half Flower Lows Winter Snow Despite Grass Dark Hours

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?”

“One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.”

Fall Voice Lows Leafs Happy Day Falling Leaves

Book:Shiver

Source: Shiver

“By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!”

Pain Dies Fall Liberty Son Proud Lows Lays Blow Oppression Chains Tyrants Woe Veins Foe Drains Your Son Usurpers

Author:Robert Burns

“A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?”

Ifs Should Children Littles Might Earth Fall Parent Sun Sea Feet Objects Eternal Lows Sight Defense Burning

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

“To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.”

People Giving Heart Littles Done Suffering Fall Given Christ Known One Thing Lows Sight Average Tragic Missionary Disciple Aspire

Author:Amy Carmichael

“Let me guess,” Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.” I just looked at him, standing there in jeans and the same blue hoodie he’d had on the first time I met him. Maybe it was the embarrassment, which had been bad enough before I had an audience, but I was instantly annoyed. I said, “Are we outside?” He glanced round, as if needing to confirm this. “Nope.” “Then no.” I turned my attention back to the keg.”

Source: Along for the Ride

“Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.”

Looks Made Fall Girl Lows Sexy Nervous Hips Threatening Jeans Skinny

Author:Sara Zarr

“His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely beautiful head. The head was that of the wildest of all wild creatures- a stallion born wild- and it was beautiful, savage, splendid. A stallion with a wonderful physical perfection that matched his savage, ruthless spirit.”

Long Beautiful Spirit Fall Born Wonderful Creatures Lows Perfection Necks Savages Splendid Ruthless Matched Slender Stallions Wild Creatures

Book:The Young Black Stallion

Source: The Young Black Stallion