Falling Upward Quotes

#1. I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

Lisa See

#2. When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

Moby

#3. The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.

Gail Sheehy

#4. A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#5. The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I'm falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.

Markus Zusak

#6. Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

Beth Kephart

#7. I think of the snow, falling, drifting upward. Of extending the ephemeral. Spaces follow spaces, burgeoning, and the air smells so sweet.

Meia Geddes

#8. It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things.

John Logue

#9. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.

James Montgomery

#10. How infinitely passionate a thing religion at its highest flights can be. Like love, like wrath, like hope, ambition, jealousy, like every other instinctive eagerness and impulse, it adds to life an enchantment which is not rationally or logically deducible from anything else.

William James

#11. Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.

Andre Gide

#12. We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back, a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?

Philip K. Dick

#13. Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. There are fires, vast and endless, that burn in me for you. And I will carry them until you are ready to walk through the Flames of me.

William C. Hannan

#15. Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Horace

#16. From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#17. A heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.

Caroline Pafford Miller

#18. I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go', and I went.

Mathew Brady

#19. I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory.

Thomas Jefferson

#20. But it is possible that a completely different author is somewhere writing a book about a UN Major Albert Knag, who is writing a book for his daughter Hilde. This book is about a certain Alberto Knox who suddenly begins to send humble philosophical lectures to Sophie Amundsen, 3 Clover Close.

Jostein Gaarder

#21. Failing once in awhile is inevitable. The question is which way are we falling most of the time. Are we falling Backward or Forward, Downward or Forward?

Assegid Habtewold

#22. There were so many stars in the dusky night I could see them falling as I gazed upward into the darkness. They seemed so near, like the Salt Sea in the distance, when they were so far away.

Alice Hoffman

#23. The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#24. Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Mark Kingwell

#25. In the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.

Hermann Broch