Leap Quotes

• And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Fall
  • Wonder
  • Found

• I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

  

  Brad Furman
  • Move
  • Believer
  • Bureaucratic

• I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Facts
  • Term
  • Landing

• Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. A leap from this bridge will set me free.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Freedom
  • Shadow
  • Kill

• I think fear... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.

  

  Beth Torbert
  • Fear
  • Dreams
  • Leap

• I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Kids
  • Listening
  • Blame

• Nature does not proceed by leaps.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Leap

• [My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation further with myself, some other individual pops up, like David McKenzie did, with this idea of making this film [Teknolust], and provides exactly the leap to the next adventure.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Film
  • Adventure
  • Individual

• If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mean
  • Moving
  • Overcoming

• The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.

  

  Willy Ley
  • Remember
  • Leap
  • Giants

• A great leap in the dark.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Dark
  • Leap

• That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Interest
  • Imagine
  • Imaginative

• Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Dreams

• It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Darkness
  • Turn
  • Leap

• When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

  

  John Calvin
  • Faith
  • Learned
  • Leap

• Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Memories
  • Historian
  • Flash

• [H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Heart
  • Stranger
  • Throat

• At the edge of heartbreak, we both take a leap into the unknown...That's when we see it, a buoy callled friendship.

  

  Nikki Grimes
  • Unknown
  • Heartbreak
  • Leap

• Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

  

  Etheridge Knight
  • Black
  • Poetry
  • Boys

• If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Poet

• We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Littles
  • Plans
  • Familiar

• Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

  

  George Eliot
  • Death
  • Shadows
  • Leap

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