#falls

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly. ↗

— George R. R. Martin

#assuming #awful #being #decent #even

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. ↗

— Golda Meir

#diffidence #falls #hits #mark #presumption

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#during #experience #falls #hair #novel

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them. ↗

— William Odom

#civil #civil war #clear #falls #going

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#down #end #face #get #go

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#education #falls #flowers #love #point

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#because #dangerous #exhausted #falls #find

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#elementary #elementary school #falls #grade #grade school

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#falls #ground #heart #kind #love

If I have a drink in my hand, sometimes it accidentally falls in the direction of the person. ↗

— Jorja Fox

#direction #drink #falls #hand #i