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Quotes About Leap

A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years... A day of temporal tune up!
~ Vera Nazarian, 2010
Skipping is a form of flying.
~ Terri Guillemets
Without a degree of risk, there is little chance for the enormous mixture of relief and achievement that follows in its steps. It is the leap that goes on to support even greater attempts at the seemingly impossible challenges that the world often uses to sort the men from the boys, and of course, the women from the girls!
~ Graham Kerr
Come to the edge, He said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . .
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Come to the edge, He said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . ." — Guillaume Apollinairet French poet
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
That was something else I'd learned from Homer—sometimes, to get the things that were good in life, you had to make a blind leap.
~ Gwen Cooper
Come: there shall be such islanding from grief, And small communion with the master shore. Twang they. And I incline this ear to tin, Consult a dual dilemma. Whether to dry In humming pallor or to leap and die. Somebody muffed it?? Somebody wanted to joke.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Europe embraces new ideas in transportation like no other region in the world and is uniquely positioned to take the next great leap in transportation with Hyperloop One.
~ Shervin Pishevar
Bringing Roblox to Xbox is a huge leap forward in our mission to unite and inspire the creators, dreamers and explorers of the next generation.
~ David Baszucki
Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.
~ Piet Mondrian
I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.
~ Edmund Phelps
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
~ Thomas Hobbes
A great leap in the dark
~ Thomas Hobbes
Look, I know it's a risk. But at some point, you have to jump. I'll either land on my feet or I'll land on my face. But either way, I'll own the fall.
~ Thrity Umrigar
If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.
~ Toby Young
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Closer and closer the demons loomed as the desperate chase neared its end. Then, gathering themselves for one final leap, they prepared to engulf first the bug, then the boy, and lastly the dog and his two passengers. They rose as one and——
~ Norton Juster
The true meaning of courage is to be afraid—and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, take the leap anyway. Ready. Set. Go.
~ Oprah Winfrey
March felt the same sly, taunting, knowing spark leap out of his eyes, as he turned his head aside, and fall into her soul
~ D. H. Lawrence
Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
~ D.H. Lawrence
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.
~ D.H. Lawrence
That's what life's all about Dolores, climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
~ Wally Lamb
He sat on the rug and shouted correct answers to the contestants. His wild hair blocked off a corner of the screen. "You're pretty smart," I said during a commercial. "And you thought all I could do was hang wallpaper." He laughed. "You're just catching me during one of my fallow periods, that's all. One of my compost years. I'm expecting a creative leap pretty soon now.
~ Wally Lamb