Leaps Quotes
139 quotes by 131 authors
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He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
— Howard Pyle
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It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my…
— Rob Thurman
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It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.
— Lauren Oliver
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If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can…
— Franny Billingsley
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Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.
— Lauren Oliver
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Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the…
— Douglas Adams
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With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the way as if…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere
— Joan Didion
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In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps, As life…
— Suzanne Collins
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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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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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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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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
— Alexis Carrel
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Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
— Doug Larson
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
— Plautus
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Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
— Diane Ackerman
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The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to…
— Alexander Clark
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
— Carl Linnaeus
Who Wrote These Leaps Quotes
131 authors contributed a total of 139 Leaps Quotes, led by these top contributors: