#fall

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#been #composer #delicious #experience #falling

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#cause #comrade #desires #difficult #easy

When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax. ↗

— Jenn Suhr

#aggressiveness #bar #best #best part #celebrate

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#falls #land #might #niagara #our

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. ↗

— Robert Smith Surtees

#always #being #gentleman #infallible #know

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#almost #books #default #discipline #especially

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#general #laws #particular #probability #true

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#anything #fall #nothing #stand #those

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#calls #evil #fate #good #man

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel. ↗

— Ben Harper

#eyes #fall #fill #gospel #hands