Quotes About Landing On Your Feet

#1. Dialectics, as a veteran communist explained ... 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet.

Tony Judt

#2. It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

Vincent Canby

#3. He drops into the room, landing on the balls of his feet like a cat. I'm in his arms in the time it takes to say 'I love you,' which he does, stroking my hair, whispering my name and the words, 'My mayfly.

Rick Yancey

#4. Famine was a dirty bitch with rotten fangs, but the hunger she put in a belly bit sharp nonetheless.

T. Frohock

#5. It was the logic of retaliation that created the constitutional state. The enshrined promise of an eye for an eye, the sinner burning in hell or at least dangling for the gallows. Revenge is basically the foundation of civilization

Jo Nesbo

#6. You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.

W. Clement Stone

#7. Landing on his feet was nothing new to Caleb. He did not believe in luck, he believed in the law of nature. Animals did not rely on luck. They lived and died by their instincts.

Arlene Hunt

#8. A writer who renders the brutal actions of men in excruciating detail, seldom applying the anesthetic of psychology, [Cormac] McCarthy would much rather orate than confide.

Richard B. Woodward

#9. I want to be the most exciting fighter out there.

Urijah Faber

#10. A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Robert Jordan

#11. Possibly it's something women do: spend time imagining what it's like to be each other.
One can learn from that, he thinks.

Hilary Mantel

#12. She breaks. She's sick. Throw a rope, a net. She falls like a shot-up plane. Help her find the landing strip, Her feet are wet - She'll learn, she'll train. She walks a rope on fire, Look Ma, no hands.

Stephanie Hemphill

#13. There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons ... You'll wait and wait.

Susan Minot

#14. A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud.

Gary Corby