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Quotes About Leap

Thom smiled back almost as unsteadily; he looked as if he was contemplating a leap from the window.
~ Robert Jordan
Upon my return I found the call in my box. It was Anne's number, then Anne's voice on the wire, and, as always, the little leap and plunk in my heart like a frog jumping into a lily pool. With the ripples spreading round.
~ Robert Penn Warren
You must learn to think a little, Anne, that's what. The proverb you need to go by is 'Look before you leap'--especially into spare room beds.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Speaker-To-Animals said one thing more before he turned back to his table. Louis Wu, I found your challenge verbose. In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap. You scream and you leap, said Louis. Great.
~ Larry Niven
Because to gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I stand on the edge of a cliff, wondering if I'm going to fall or jump.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
~ Yann Martel
My smile faded, and I suddenly felt confused. My heart leapt in my chest. "Why would you do that for me?" "What wouldn't I do for you?
~ Richelle Mead
Quitting my day job and starting my life as a writer was a tremendous risk. It was a fool's leap, a shot in the dark. But anything of any value in our lives, whether that be a career, a work of art, a relationship, will always start with such a leap. And in order to be able to make it you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. (...) Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions that we shall ever take.
~ Alan Moore
Those who hesitate, never make the leap
~ Dianne Marie Teresa Cole
'One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.'
~ Robert Holden
Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.
~ Brian Tracy
If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
~ Anna Quindlen
I take her hand, and together we leap through the air. And in that moment there's nothing I fear except losing hold of her hand.
~ Jennifer Niven
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~ Jennifer Niven
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.
~ Jerome S. Bruner
Skipping turns your legs into built-in pogo sticks.
~ Jessi Lane Adams
my heart leapt like a young salmon.
~ Erik Larson
criticism is part of the price paid for leaping past mediocrity.
~ Andy Andrews
That was the way life was: it lay so quiet, so still that you put your fingers out to touch it, to stroke it. Then it leapt up and struck you full in the face so that you spun about and spun about, gasping. The flames leapt up all around, rising by inches every minute, rising in rings.
~ Anita Desai
I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.
~ David Attenborough
In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Then his expression softened, as if he had solved a troublesome riddle. He smiled. "You do it," he said. Then he stepped over the edge.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.
~ Robert Holden