Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
I shall not miss the hectoring and backbiting and the lack of generosity towards fallen foes, but I will miss the sheer clubability of parliament. If one fancies a coffee or a meal or a drink then it is always possible to find at least one person out of 646 whose company is congenial.
Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn’t. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending – more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
Mainstream Bollywood music has fallen into some sort of a rut where melody, which was very important ’till the ’90s, is out of favor.
My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.
I’ve fallen in love with Los Angeles, and I love to explore it myself.
This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you’ll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying – and you’ve fallen for it.
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
I’ve never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you’re not seeing an end to things.
I think in more ways than one ‘Uyir’ did a lot good, getting the scope to perform. Things have really fallen in place since then. Breaking free of the shackles has given me the rich option to choose and pick from the range of characters coming my way.
I understand how it is to be away from your family for so long, to leave your comfort zone, it’s not easy. That’s why I’ve never fallen apart with anyone because I understand their perspective, as well.
In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it’s a fact.
I wrote ‘The Searcher’ because I love westerns, and they’ve fallen out of fashion.
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
I’ve fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It’s never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
As you wrestle with life… You’re going to come out on the other end healed… I’ve fallen short sometimes, and I’ve risen pretty high a few times.
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, ‘The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,’ talking about women writers I felt had fallen off the map.
Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.
Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they’re very fearful of running for office.
If you’re Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?
Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain’s stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
Until recently, Hollywood offered only a handful of roles to actors of color. The majority of my opportunities have fallen into two categories: Scary Black and Funny Black.
Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.
My heart goes out to the families of our fallen officers.
‘Fallen Too Far’ was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they’d fallen compared with the West.
Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can’t believe that I’ve fallen for it all these years!
When I look at ‘Fallen Angels,’ I realize it is not a film that is truly about Hong Kong. It’s more like my Hong Kong fantasy. I want Hong Kong to be quiet, with less people.
Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. Everything’s just sorta fallen into place.
Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.
Other great fighters like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali have fallen to the canvas. Why not Julio Cesar Chavez?
Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it’s a video game, and it’s not. It is very, very dangerous, and it’s tough.
I’ve honestly fallen in love with a man and I’ve honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don’t know how you label that, it’s just how it is.
It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.
Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.
Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another.
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I’ve fallen off the stage. I’ve gotten sick – anything.
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you – but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn’t matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven’t fallen under a bus.
I imagine people might look at me and think ‘Oh, she has been single-mindedly working on her career all these years and those family issues have fallen by the wayside’, but that is absolutely not the case.
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
When you take over a company like GE, you think you’re going to visit 100 businesses. You’re going to go see the factories you haven’t seen before. You’re going to see a site in Texas and one in Canada and stuff like that. That has fallen by the wayside.
No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Every pilot I’ve ever written, I’ve fallen deeply and madly in love with. It’s the only way I work.
On Christmas Day 2016, the greatest singer songwriter of his generation, an icon of his era, George Michael, was lost. A supernova in the shining stars had been extinguished and it felt like the sky had fallen in.
As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen’s ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.
I haven’t fallen that much, but when I have, it’s usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
I’ve never had it easy. There have been fortunate coincidences and instances, but nothing has fallen into my lap. Whatever I’ve achieved has always been through sheer hard work.
