“ The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.7K
“ On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop. ”
- Ernest Thompson Seton- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Let the world slide. - The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.5K
“ As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
- 900
“ I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. ”
- Natalie Goldberg- Copy
- 854
“ When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;And when Rome falls — the World. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. ”
- Paul Virilio- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off. ”
- Dannii Minogue- Copy
- 789
“ Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 261
“ Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
- 192
“ When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. ”
- Vance Law- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. ”
- Johnny Bench- Copy
- 250
“ There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, slumping ominously like the Dow Jones in 1929. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
- 1.1K
“ My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. ”
- Hank Aaron- Copy
- 700
“ It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm. ”
- Eddie Mathews- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking. ”
- Gene Mauch- Copy
- 3K
“ To hit .400 you need a great start and you can't have a slump. There year I did it, I was around .410, .412 all season and I was really hitting the ball on the nose. ”
- Bill Terry- Copy
- 3.4K
“ We are in such a slump that even the ones that aren't drinkin' aren't hittin'. ”
- Casey Stengel- Copy
- 1K
“ One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. ”
- Judith Viorst- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 3.7K
“ He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
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