Headlong Quotes
65 quotes by 59 authors
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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
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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
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
— Epictetus
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After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
— Dave Barry
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a…
— KL Going
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.
— Phil Cousineau
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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
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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
— Wilkie Collins
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Headlong Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 65 Headlong Quotes, led by these top contributors: