Leap Quotes
648 Leap quotes by 522 unique authors
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When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead,…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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We are part and parcel of a single and all-encompassing evolutionary current that is itself Spirit-in-action, the mode and manner of Spirit's creation, and thus…
— Ken Wilber
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Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.
— Will Friedle
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Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow…
— Mao Zedong
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Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and…
— Elise M. Boulding
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Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and…
— Deborah Eisenberg
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Everything beautiful that we create in life requires a leap of faith.
— Paul Budnitz
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My grandfather was a small-town doctor and he used to say that I was missing a gene that told me that some giant risk I…
— Paul Budnitz
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Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to orange for financial…
— Jon Stewart
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The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke…
— Huey Newton
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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
— Dennis Potter
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Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground,…
— Plutarch
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Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going…
— Julia Cameron
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Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock…
— Graham Joyce
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If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.
— Newton Lee
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Surfing is all about uncertainty. That feeling of taking a risk, that leap of faith every time I jump into the ocean, that paddle out…
— Shaun Tomson
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Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.
— Heinrich Heine
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Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth,…
— Hesketh Pearson
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I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like…
— Mary C. Ames
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I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls…
— R C Sproul
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The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Leap Quotes
522 authors contributed a total of 648 Leap Quotes, led by these top contributors: