Headlong Quotes

65 quotes by 59 authors

I cannot tell if what the world considers â€˜happinessâ€™ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go… — Zhuangzi
Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to… — Thomas Willis
The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race — Robert Frost
The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is… — Peter Mayle
When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush… — Nancy Pearl
The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong. — Robert Musil
Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts… — Gene Logsdon
In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways… — Saint Augustine
It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a largeÂ glowing object hovering in the… — Travis Walton
It was a murky confusion â€” here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel â€” of flying… — Charles Dickens
Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause… — Christina Romer
Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but… — Ben H. Winters
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels… — Lucretius
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams… — Alexander Pope
If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up… — Vincent Van Gogh
When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint .… — James Agee
In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather… — Richard P. Feynman
Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great… — Marcus Aurelius

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