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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself. -- Charles de Gaulle
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. -- Rudolf Nureyev
That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face. -- Thomas Adams
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. -- Charles Horton Cooley
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. -- Stephen Leacock
Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together -- Colleen Hoover
We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. -- Charles de Gaulle
When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on. -- Archie Griffin
For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby? -- Haniel Long
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth. -- George Eliot
We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to. -- Dave Eggers
A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned. -- Ewan McGregor
So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on. -- Rupert Grint
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. -- Albert Camus
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything. -- Aldous Huxley
Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. -- Will Carleton
Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no grace, goodness enough to need no progress, humility enough to need no repentance, devotion enough to need no quickening, strength sufficient without Your spirit; lest, standing still, I fall back for evermore. -- Eric Milner-White
There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not crawl, once -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In order to receive forgiveness, we need to place our trust in Christ as our Savior and the Lord of our lives. But if we reject Christ, then we reject God's mercy and fall back on His justice. And you know where you stand there. If we reject Jesus' offer of forgiveness, then there is simply is no one else to pay the penalty for your sin--except yourself. -- William Lane Craig
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities. -- Les Claypool
Courage! Do not fall back. -- Joan of Arc
When you fall, get right back up. -- Lindsey Vonn
The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking. -- Mason Cooley
The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne. -- Sri Aurobindo
We were built to fall apart and fall back together. -- Taylor Swift
If you fall stand tall and come back for more. -- Tupac Shakur
You fall off the horse and you get back on. -- Bethany Hamilton
Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall. -- Daniel J. Evans
If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about. -- Keith Sweat
It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again. -- Patrick Ness
We all fall in life The question is who gets back up! -- Greg Plitt
If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over. -- Sally Pearson
You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone. -- Charles Bukowski
Don't have a fall back, because if you do, you'll fall back. -- Mary-Louise Parker
I'm a bowling pin, even when I fall I'll always stand back up. -- Jay Park
It doesn't matter if you fall down, it's whether you get back up. -- Michael Jordan
Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up. -- Christopher Nolan
It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on. -- Paul McCartney
When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it. -- Lindsey Vonn
Go back to the abyss! Fall into nothingness that awaits you and your master! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together. -- Nikki Giovanni
Kevin Garnett did the classic hold me back but fall away at the same time. -- Jemele Hill
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter. -- Olivia Wilde
A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back. -- Raymond Chandler
Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum -- Nicki Minaj
Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape. -- Allan Gurganus
My mum always told me, 'Have something to fall back on' and I never really listened. -- Chuck Mosley
If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up. -- Les Brown
You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back. -- Lauren Oliver
Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table. -- Steve Jobs
We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth. -- Nhat Hanh
Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together. -- Colleen Hoover
When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on. -- Mason Cooley
No one wanted to fall back behind so both teams wated for a mistake from the other. -- Franz Beckenbauer
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. -- Suzanne Collins
I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. -- Meg Rosoff
Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.''I won't let you fall. -- Nalini Singh
Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up. -- Les Brown
I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on. -- Jane Lynch
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. -- Joseph Joubert
We all fall sometime but it's those that get back up and try again that make the difference. -- Gary Revel
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back. -- Chuck Palahniuk
This world's a tough place to live in and you have to have something to fall back on. -- David Ragan
Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better. -- Fannie Flagg
I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something. -- Nolan Gould
I'm the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream. -- Marilyn Monroe
If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree. -- Pierce Brosnan
Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up. -- Jaime Escalante
The world can fall to pieces around us, but in the end, we'll always make it back to us. -- Cassia Leo
A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up. -- Evel Knievel
Why play, lounge or labour in a social wasteland? It's toxicity is contagious, and no respecter of persons. Fall back! -- T.F. Hodge
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined. -- Andrei Codrescu
The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in. -- Dave Beard
Soothing the exhaustionIn my soul,So I can fall back skyward,Safe in your arms,And survive to dream again. -- Scott Hastie
If you haven't done your mental homework in training, you don't have anything to fall back on when you face. -- Margaret Groos
The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again. -- Harold S. Kushner
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is important to understand that if you do fall, it's important for you to get right back up again. -- Sachin Tendulkar
You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going. -- Maggie Siff
That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her. -- Neil Gaiman
... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through -- Leonard Cohen
It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something. -- Dan Wells
In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person. -- Joseph Dougherty
When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up. -- Kathleen McDonald
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish. -- Darrell Royal
I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to. -- Kirstie Alley
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish -- Darrell Royal
To fall in love with someone who does not love you back, is the cruelest, most unforgiving heartache I have ever experienced. -- KB
It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. -- Paul Theroux
There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed. -- David Letterman
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Sure, I have a job now, but the acting business isn't always that solid, and so I wanted something to fall back upon. -- Beverley Mitchell
nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with. -- Alain Ducasse
You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself. -- Dana Hill
It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable. -- Robert Fritz
There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism. -- Catherine Camus
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart. -- E. B. White
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. -- Jodi Picoult
Every year it's one more step closer, and then at the end you get to the top and you fall back down. It's crazy. -- William Clark Green
I've very fortunate to come from a great family who are extremely supportive of me and I'll always have them to fall back on. -- Liam Hemsworth
I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup. -- Art Alexakis
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods. -- William James
There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five. -- Darius Rucker
Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio. -- Rob Brydon
Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt. -- Scott Ellis
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. -- Jodi Picoult
The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face. -- L. Ron Hubbard
The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips. -- Sarah Dessen
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. -- Clifford Geertz
There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else. -- Edie Falco
As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together. -- Pope Francis
But you could miss me with all that, diss me then crawl back. I really wish yall would fall back, but gettin rich suppose to solve that. -- Drake

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