Leap Quotes

648 Leap quotes by 522 unique authors

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings. — William Sloane Coffin
It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in… — William Sloane Coffin
There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation. — William Sloane Coffin
The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out… — George Orwell
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as… — Yann Martel
Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining… — Kij Johnson
Wherever your heart rests There I will live and be blessed I've tried to line up the things I Needed to say but now my… — Walter Dean Myers
And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over,… — Sarah Dessen
I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in… — John Patrick Shanley
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike
I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present. — Meg Rosoff
All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with… — Tom Robbins
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult… — James Salter
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of… — Aberjhani
Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden… — William Butler Yeats
Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it… — Stephen R. Lawhead
I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take… — Tim O'Brien
The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active,… — Martin Luther
Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one… — P.G. Wodehouse
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud. — Howard Pyle
Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he… — Ernst Junger
...because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you,… — Octavio Paz
We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow… — Haruki Murakami

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