Leaps Quotes
139 quotes by 131 authors
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'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
— Hilary Mantel
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The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are…
— Paul McCartney
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We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
— Joyce Meyer
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not…
— Eric Ries
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
— Walter Scott
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
— Gloria Steinem
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps…
— Yann Martel
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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am…
— William Wordsworth
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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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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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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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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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When I look into your eyes, one word leaps to my mind every time: Forever.
— Tina St. John
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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
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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
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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
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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
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