Leap Quotes

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. (Neil Armstrong)
There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps. View quote
David Lloyd George
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. View quote
Henry Miller
If human beings are able to take a fresh look at themselves as well as the universe and change their rigid mentalities, humankind will make a leap forward. View quote
Li Hongzhi
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher. View quote
A. Scott Berg
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up. View quote
John Updike
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. View quote
Clifton Fadiman
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard. (Mark Kingwell)
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else. View quote
Steven Johnson
Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. View quote
Derek Jacobi
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. View quote
Holly Near
You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap. View quote
Vincent Schiavelli
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? View quote
Dennis Potter
Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted. View quote
Marina Warner
Look twice before you leap. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!' View quote
Jack Kerouac
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. View quote
Sol LeWitt
When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. or wonder who, after all, you are. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing. View quote
Albert Finney
Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy. View quote
William Tyndale
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. View quote
Yo-Yo Ma
I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign? View quote
Chuck Norris