Quotes About Leap

The Reformation was a movement that broke the bubble that held the Middle Ages in place. . . . El Bosco painted his Garden on the threshold of this leap.

Überhaupt ohne Leichtsinn ist das ganze Leben keinen Schuss Pulver wert. (S.109)

I've never seen anything that I didn't want to jump off of.

If you can jump, you can jump.

Maybe it's innate: I have a body built to jump.

Once acting hit me, once that bug hit me, I just... took the jump and dove right in.

Maybes are anchors you chain to your own feet. Right before you leap off the boat into the ocean.

He was waiting, one strong hand outstretched. She had no idea what he was doing, or where he thought he was going. He was asking her to say "yes" without knowing. He was asking for that leap of faith Gwen had warned her about. For the second time in less than forty-eight hours, the man was asking her to throw all caution to the wind and leap with him, trusting that he wouldn't let her fall.

She gave him her most forbidding you-will-obey-me-little-boy-or-die glance. They waged a battle with their glares—his challenging, hers promising divine retribution—until with a gamin grin he leaped to his feet, slipped behind her, and was gone.

It's go time.' He takes my elbow and gentles me down the planks with such tenderness that I am suddenly very afraid. But there's no sense making the plunge slow and unbearable. I take a running leap down the pier- ... -and launch over the water. It's my favorite moment: when I'm one toe away from flight and my body takes over. The choice is made, but the consequence is still just an inky shimmer beneath me. And I'm flying, I'm rushing to meet my own reflection-

Then, with a stately leap, the sun bounded into the sky, and the whole, messy, beautiful, broken world was stained with fire.

It was a leap into the other

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

In this context, big is a placeholder for what you might call a leap of possibility.

Because positivism (which repudiated the possibility of a theological or metaphysical explanation of reality) had failed, all that was left for secular society was "cynicism or some mystical leap to knowing.

Was the attack provoked? Rabid animals tend to attack without provocation. Trying to pick up or feed a wild animal and having it take a nip out of your finger is a very natural and unsuspect action. Having it leap from the shadows at your throat is an unprovoked and suspect attack.

Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee!

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 that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.

So if I decide to leap for The Fountain when I finish this memo, I want to make one thing perfectly clear—I would genuinely love to make that leap, and if I don't I will always consider it a mistake and a failed opportunity, one of the very few serious mistakes of my First Life that is now ending.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.

Organic olive farming was going to be a particularly tricky challenge, but Michel and I needed to take a risk and let the problems iron themselves out as we came up against them. It was time to make a leap of faith, just like we'd done when buying this farm.

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.

The frog atop the stack of coins dares not jump.