Leaping Quotes
112 Leaping quotes by 95 unique authors
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I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would…
— Steven Gerrard
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By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives…
— Alan Watts
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Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the…
— Maggie Scarf
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Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and Eternal Knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of…
— Sri Aurobindo
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And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living…
— Tommy Cooper
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Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is…
— Nhat Hanh
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings…
— Michael Leunig
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Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off…
— Maryrose Wood
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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and…
— James Dwight Dana
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And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really…
— Joe Shuster
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The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is not a dead…
— Mel White
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The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in the war against…
— Orson Scott Card
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The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear…
— Criss Jami
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Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my…
— Pablo Picasso
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If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one…
— James A. Michener
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I am fascinated by revolution. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed, am obsessed by the romanticism... . Revolution surges, flashes, thunders in…
— Sukarno
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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and…
— Beverly Cleary
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This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.
— Eric Burdon
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In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
— Joanna Lumley
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We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it;…
— Paul Klee
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If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But…
— John Cleese
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These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,…
— Rachel Carson
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If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.
— James Herriot
Who Wrote These Leaping Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 112 Leaping Quotes, led by these top contributors: