#fall

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#falling #falling in love #go #hardly #into

We are none of us infallible not even the youngest of us. ↗

— William Hepworth Thompson

#infallible #none #us #youngest

Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work. ↗

— Rachel Perry

#fall #likely #love #men #more

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#end #falls #in the end #never #paid

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ↗

— Petrarch

#anger #avarice #banished #enjoy #envy

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ↗

— Colin Powell

#close #ego #falls #goes #having

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. ↗

— Colin Powell

#baghdad #fall #handled #history #i

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#beset #channel #conjecture #distance #explore

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose. ↗

— Robin Quivers

#experiences #fall #falling #fear #feelings

I've always been good at putting things behind me - I fall apart, do my crying bit and then put it away and move it. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#apart #away #been #behind #bit