Cat Stevens Quotes

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

The higher up, the harder the fall.

The taller they are, the longer they fall.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Besotted with ambition, empires in our age have betrayed an astonishing propensity for self-inflicted wounds…. Of the dangers that threaten a Great Power, the most insidious come from within.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.

To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher...and falling

You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and fall. You know, they all, like Achilles, Icarus, you know, they all had their high points and their low points.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. But what else could we have thought? Only that it began and ended with us. What do we know, even now? Ask the children. Look at what they grew up to be. We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.