Quotes About Leap

No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.

A leap year Is never a good sheep year.

2020 is a unique leap year. There are 29 days in February, 300 days in March, and 5 years in April.

You seem to have found a stored pocket of energy. I am reborn! Cackling, she whirled around, pushed off with her toes and leaped on him. Let's have monkey sex, she said as she wrapped her legs around Roarke's waist. Well, if you insist. It so happens I have a pint of very nice chocolate sauce in the parlor. You're kidding. One never kids about monkey sex with chocolate sauce.

In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.

You couldn't soar if you didn't leap.

Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling of an eye. Both are necessary truths, but sometimes it's important to accentuate the discontinuity, the sudden leap, the way you go up a tree, Zacchaeus, and come down a saint.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

This was a leap forward in computing—or it would have been, if not for the moths. Because vacuum tubes glowed like lightbulbs, they attracted insects, requiring regular "debugging" by their engineers. Also like lightbulbs, vacuum tubes often burned

Jim Collins, author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… And Others Don't

if you jump off a cliff at least you'll fly before you fall.

She says if you jump off a cliff at least you'll fly before you fall.

Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs.

There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.

Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.

Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.