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  • As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream.

    Running   Fall   Writing  
    Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.95, Penguin
  • The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire.

    Fall   Fire   Desire  
    Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”
  • It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.

    Fall   Believe   Power  
    Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.215, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

    Strong   Fall   Oneness  
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.218, Booklassic
  • Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

    Fall   Toss   Poet  
    Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Waves”, p.51, Booklassic
  • Everything rises and falls on leadership.

    FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Mar 03, 2016
  • Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together

    Fall   Men   Grace  
    Evelyn Underhill (1937). “The Spiritual Life”
  • This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.

    Fall   Steps   Tobias  
  • Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  • The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

  • Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.

    Art   Fall   Play  
  • Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice, in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

    Fall   Ocean   Ignorance  
  • The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally view the phenomena from a sufficiently high biological standpoint. To me, at least, they seem to attach too much importance to individual rulers and soldiers, and to particular wars, policies, religions, and customs; while at the same time they make little attempt to extract the fundamental causes of national success or failure.

    War   Fall   Science  
  • In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

    Fall   Men   Fire  
    Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 1 (1940)
  • It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time.

  • Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

    Fall   Rocks   Sea  
    John Steinbeck (1997). “Tortilla Flat”, p.107, Penguin
  • A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

    Life   Fall   Creativity  
    Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.156, Best Books on
  • In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

    Fall   Color   Lines  
  • I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.

  • Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a triple A country.

    Country   Fall   Agency  
    "Op-Ed: Where's President Obama's Narrative?". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. August 8, 2011.
  • Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

    Flower   Garden   Tree  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.249
  • Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?

    Ocean   Fall   Wind  
    Myron Uhlberg (2009). “Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love”, p.29, Bantam
  • The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.

    "On Growing Up Tough (The Purple Lodge & The Hippies)". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.
  • The rise and fall of Tony Montana, and what a way to go out.

    Fall   Dying   Montana  
  • Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

    Fall   Tree   Together  
  • To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

    Fall   Roles   Defying  
  • Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

  • Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

  • I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey?

    Dream   Children   War  
  • Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

    Fall   Tides   Reputation  
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