Headlong Quotes

65 quotes by 59 authors

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type… — Brandon Boyd
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. — Jean Cocteau
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care. — Epictetus
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. — Dave Barry
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down… — Homer
It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and… — Jacques Barzun
For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course… — Frederick Soddy
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other… — Walter Raleigh
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw,… — Charles Dickens
John Green has written a powerful novelâ€”one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a… — KL Going
My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte… — Dinaw Mengestu
As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into… — Nate Saint
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to… — Sophocles
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with… — John Milton
Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it. — Phil Cousineau
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky… — H.G. Wells
Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women. — Wilkie Collins
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by. — Eric Johnston
When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of… — Kent Nerburn

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59 authors contributed a total of 65 Headlong Quotes, led by these top contributors: