Things Fall Apart Important Quotes

#1. It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Madeleine Albright

#2. You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.

Iris Apfel

#3. And I'll be sworn 'tis true. Travelers ne'er did lie,
Though fools at home condemn 'em.
---Antonio
(Act III, scene 3, lines 26-27.)

William Shakespeare

#4. Whenever you lose someone you love, you have those lingering regrets. You wish you could hug them or kiss them or talk to them ... I don't want those regrets

Lisa De Jong

#5. As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can live as I did without dying or falling apart. I wanted people to understand that we don't need everything that our culture tells us we have to have to be satisfied.

Alix Kates Shulman

#6. We did sometimes play jokes on each other. It was fun, until about a month ago when he attacked me with nerf guns when I walked in the door. I slipped while running away and fell on the coffee table. Let's just say I wouldn't be winning the most graceful woman's award any time soon.

Jessica Florence

#7. It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#8. With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.

Peter Gabriel

#9. Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

Jackie Gleason

#10. Oh, yeah, looks like things have been super easy for you this far. Look, high school is hell for most people. It's one of the many facts of life. But I had friends. I was happy with who I was, and I'm happy with who I am now.

Leah Rae Miller

#11. People... people who NEED people, are the yuckiest people in the world.

G.S. Johnston

#12. [Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.]

Tennessee Williams

#13. For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.

Huey Long

#14. Pay attention. Driving is a privilege." "Whateves, Grandma M.

A.G. Howard

#15. The falcon cannot hear the falconer

William Butler Yeats

#16. Your health is the most important commodity that you have. Without it, everything will fall apart - relationships, financial wellbeing, career, school, and so on. It is very important to take good care of yourself.

John Rogers

#17. Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret ...

Louisa May Alcott

#18. She really needed to stop reading romantic suspense because now horror stories from authors like Shiloh Walker were on her mind and a little too vivid for what she needed at the moment.

Carrie Ann Ryan