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If you're not moving forward, you're falling back. -- Sam Waterston
Everybody keeps falling back to the same patterns without doing too much dramaturgy. -- Mitchell Hurwitz
The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back. -- Leonard Cohen
I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond. -- Christian Wiman
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? -- Wilkie Collins
Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence. -- Alex Gaskarth
Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers. -- Christopher Dawson
I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies. -- Rush Limbaugh
I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies. -- Rush Limbaugh
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. -- Sigmund Freud
The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not. -- Ellen Hopkins
We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off. -- Peter Singer
With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything. -- Ben Folds
If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice. -- Luciano Pavarotti
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back. -- James Madison
Never under estimate the Power of the Mind. Persist in creating new thoughts to prevent falling back into negative patterns. It is an ongoing struggle and you have to commit to winning if you are to succeed. -- Bob Proctor
If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment. -- Fawn M. Brodie
I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man. -- Suzanne Finnamore
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction. -- Arthur Keith
It's something I deal with to this day, a fear of falling back into that darkness. I see athletes go through a similar thing. ... With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport. -- Clara
Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn't make sense to others, but it's not for them. It's what keeps you together, what keeps you going. -- Alyse M. Gardner
Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep. -- Eckhart Tolle
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before. -- Eckhart Tolle
He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of the reach of daylight. I'm not afraid of falling. I don't fear the sky beyond the train tracks like I did before. I can go anywhere just so long as it's with him. -- Lauren DeStefano
When you fall, get right back up. -- Lindsey Vonn
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
If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over. -- Sally Pearson
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. -- Rudolf Nureyev
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. -- Charles Horton Cooley
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. -- Stephen Leacock
If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter. -- Olivia Wilde
If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up. -- Les Brown
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 have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on. -- Jane Lynch
If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree. -- Pierce Brosnan
I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something. -- Nolan Gould
I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to. -- Kirstie Alley
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
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
Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead. -- Mickey Rourke
When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance. -- Justin Guarini
It's about falling down and getting back up. -- Robbie Lawler
The best part of falling is getting back up again. -- David Belle
Falling and getting back up is what brings you success. -- Tony Horton
Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling. -- Dane Reynolds
There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up. -- Lilly Singh
I loved the feeling of finally falling in love to someone who would love me back. -- Kristine Cuevas
Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi. -- Bikram Choudhury
There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town. -- Brock Lesnar
At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars. -- Craig Thompson
Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart. -- Anne Rice
Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn't love her back? -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now. -- Stephenie Meyer
When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off. -- Nicole Sullivan
I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down. -- Tamora Pierce
This is what I want: I want to grab my brother's hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders. -- Jandy Nelson
She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right? -- Rainbow Rowell
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling. -- Bear Grylls
I love romantic comedies that are set in a world. It's not just a boy and a girl falling in love, out of love, and back in love. -- Drew Barrymore
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education. -- Andie MacDowell
He leaned back, appalled at himself. She was a ***damn dose of truth serum. Things were falling out of his mouth as though his ability to sensor had short-circuited. -- Laura Spinella

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