Leap Quotes
648 Leap quotes by 522 unique authors
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Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never…
— Gena Showalter
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it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams
— Virginia Woolf
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And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in…
— Carl Sagan
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Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps…
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother…
— Lisa See
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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the…
— Albert Einstein
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I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.
— Jhonen Vasquez
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.…
— Agnes de Mille
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Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek,…
— Gary Snyder
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Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their…
— Jodi Picoult
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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with…
— Douglas Adams
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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…
— Sarah Dessen
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What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give…
— Albert Camus
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The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm…
— David Levithan
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.
— Rachel Caine
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Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move,…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he…
— Yann Martel
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Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black…
— Amy Tan
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My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse…
— Meg Cabot
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash…
— Anais Nin
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When I look into your eyes, one word leaps to my mind every time: Forever.
— Tina St. John
Who Wrote These Leap Quotes
522 authors contributed a total of 648 Leap Quotes, led by these top contributors: