Leap Quotes
648 Leap quotes by 522 unique authors
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When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.
— Jodi Picoult
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September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So…
— Louis MacNeice
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The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't…
— Tana French
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness
— E E Cummings
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Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show…
— Paulo Coelho
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My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of…
— Frances Hardinge
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You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I…
— Mary Oliver
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
— Yann Martel
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Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly, he announces. When I woke, I couldn't... or so the maester said. But what…
— George R. R. Martin
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I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
— Charles Bukowski
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What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.
— Ian Mcewan
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Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the…
— Frederick Buechner
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Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.
— Maya Banks
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To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Love and faith go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. And as we all know, taking the leap ain't always safe.…
— Kirsten Miller
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A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy…
— Cassandra Clare
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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
— Alexis Carrel
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Leap, and the net will appear.
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
— William Cobbett
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Having children-the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings-is the biggest job anyone can embark on. You have to take a leap of…
— Maria Shriver
Who Wrote These Leap Quotes
522 authors contributed a total of 648 Leap Quotes, led by these top contributors: