#fall

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. ↗

— William Temple

#arrows #back #believe #between #complaints

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. ↗

— William Temple

#best #care #child #done #falls

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall. ↗

— Randall Terry

#commandments #depart #fall #foundation #free

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #except #fall #nothing #only

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#always #being #disloyal #distortion #fallible

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#fallow #fertile #rejection #times #tremendous

If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#face #fall #flat #launched #liberal

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#any #applicable #basic #basic principles #beings

I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#believe #belong #brave #falls #i