Top 100 Leap Quotes
#1. He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second ... and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh that time. His face twisted fast, grabbed my pajama leg and wrenched, and down I went.
Bully
Kelley Armstrong
#2. most dangerous thing in the world is to try and leap a chasm in two jumps,'" Paul quoted with dignified seriousness.
Glenn Michaels
#3. Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.
Evel Knievel
#4. When I get moved to write a story, I don't question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ignore the voices that are chattering away at me: 'You can't do that', 'You shouldn't do that'. I just sort of leap and take a chance and go for it.
David Bergen
#5. I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.
Tamara Ecclestone
#6. Fierce, and what capitalists sometimes call 'ruinous' competition tends, therefore, to produce leap-frogging innovations that more often that not lead capitalists to fetishise technological and organisational innovations as the answer to all their prayers
David Harvey
#7. I don't know if I can trust again. How do I make my heart and mind work together? My heart wants to leap while my brain is saying run for my life.
A.M. Willard
#8. There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
Franz Kafka
#9. [She] knows that it's fear that keeps her love in check. but what if falling in love i a sign not of weakness but of courage? what if it isnt falling or crashing but taking a leap?
Julianna Baggott
#10. These are the two fundamental ways in which the spiritual journey can be approached: you can either go slowly, step-by-step, accepting all natural assistance available to you, or you can ignore all the steps and take the inward leap.
Sadhguru
#11. Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.
Susan Sontag
#13. This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.
Jodi Picoult
#14. Wanda Bone Bouvier had that thing that makes a hound leap against its cage. It ws a quality that was partly a bonus from nature and partly learned from cheesecake calendars and Tanya Tucker albums.
Daniel Woodrell
#15. The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
Steven Pressfield
#16. That was the attraction of the sirens: not promises of power or riches, but bewildering, tantalizing prophecies that made men leap from their ships to go ask the crazy bitches what the fuck they were talking about.
Kevin Hearne
#17. He wanted to cut the man's throat. Never in his life had he been so overpowered by such a desire to kill someone. It was a strange feeling, sweet and driven. In one leap he could be on him. His legs wanted to do it; they trembled with anticipation.
Robert Karjel
#18. It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.
Seth Godin
#19. Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.
John Dewey
#20. 'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around the planet gave me a certain notoriety that helped me get other work.
Scott Bakula
#21. You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.
Henry R Brandt
#22. Patty Flood and her good mood were starting to get on my nerves. Her mood was so good it was almost a physical thing, a monkey on a leash that she let leap all over the furniture, delighting only its owner.
Elizabeth McCracken
#23. Whenever out on a leap of faith, things have never turned out as I had imagined, but in the long run, things have always turned out better. Faith is a powerful force and one that creates incredible blessings.
Bronnie Ware
#24. You can take a flyin' leap off a space dock.
M. Pax
#25. Teach me to sing and recite,
To whistle and jingle and strum.
Teach me to color and paint,
To sculpt and weave and create.
Teach me to sway and dance,
To tap and leap and twirl.
Teach me to laugh and giggle,
To tickle and play and pretend.
Teach me that life is beautiful.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant, hard-won behavioral leap that, sadly, a staggering percent of the population of folks I know haven't quite mastered.
Keith Murray
#27. In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone.
William Lashner
#28. The challenging part is in the beginning; its a leap of faith. But I think the most important thing is to just do it. Start.
Tom Szaky
#29. Surfing is all about uncertainty. That feeling of taking a risk, that leap of faith every time I jump into the ocean, that paddle out among things unseen - all of these make surfing very special
Shaun Tomson
#31. Courage wasn't a matter of taking the whole mountain in a single massive leap. Courage was taking it one step at a time, doing what was necessary now, preparing for the next step, and refusing to worry about whether some step in the future would be the one that would break him.
Timothy Zahn
#32. A young Buddhist frog took a leap,
into some traffic, "Beep, Beep!"
He sprang from his feet,
jumping into the street,
and soon became one with a jeep.
-The Ginger Poem of the Month
Lennie Peterson
#33. [H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap ...
Hilary Mantel
#34. I just didn't lock into being in the right role in the right big movie and it going huge. I did never really make the leap to hyperspace. Who's to say that it can't still happen. I just enjoy working, and feel fortunate to be doing the things that I am doing.
Jake Busey
#35. The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
Anthony Minghella
#36. Can't you feel it?"
She could. No question about it. But saying yes felt like a giant leap for them. For her.
"Be brave for me.
Jennifer Kacey
#37. Love is a leap of faith. There are no guarantees. Whether it's a lover or a child or a dog, you love because you have no choice. So figure out what you want,
Wendy Tyson
#38. But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.
Ed O'Brien
#39. Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#40. Just give me a chance. I know I'm not your first, and I'll somehow try to deal if I'm not your last. Just give me the honor of being able to say I shared part of my life and my heart with you. Just ... leap.
Hope Alcocer
#41. I don't want you to leap into another relationship without thinking. Looking for perfect is a big, fat myth because perfect isn't out there.
Joan Bauer
#43. To get where we want to be, we must first trust, then make the leap of faith that our Heavenly Father will allow us to soar.
Tommy Jones
#44. True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light.
Eric Metaxas
#45. The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
Murray Rothbard
#46. Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.
Leah Busque
#47. and when they didn't know what to do, they took a leap. But in that "leap," there is a lot to unpack.
Jeff Goins
#48. That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me.
Debra Dean
#49. I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.
Emily Blunt
#50. It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J.J. Abrams
#51. Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
Haruki Murakami
#52. Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
Samantha Power
#53. Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning could be rescued from the flame,
Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came
Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;
So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.
John Donne
#54. To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?
Steve Jobs
#56. Sometimes in life you just have to take a leap of faith.
Abby Clements
#57. You leap too quickly to his defense. It reveals his true attitude, of which he has doubtless made you aware.
Roger Zelazny
#58. Spirit is infinitely creative! You don't sign up to follow Jesus because you know what'll happen and you want to get on board. You sign up because you have absolutely no idea what will happen but you can't wait to find out. You take the leap of faith.
Daniel Fusco
#60. Take a leap of faith right now and know that you can live the life of your dreams by making a positive decision.
Auliq Ice
#61. In a wild leap that made her feel as though she'd left her body, she thought, It doesn't really matter who you settle on to love, finally, providing you both deserve it.
Patricia Henley
#62. There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.
Kevin Brady
#63. The revolution is just a T-shirt away.
- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Billy Bragg
#64. There is nothing guaranteed in life. But the only leaps really worth taking are leaps of faith on love. So look where you leap, beautiful, and happy landing," Alyssa toasted.
Anonymous
#65. Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That's what the dead would tell the living, if they could - to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.
Claudia Gray
#66. I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
Jim Coleman
#67. As the applicant pool grows, the exact place to draw the line between looking and leaping settles to 37% of the pool, yielding the 37% Rule: look at the first 37% of the applicants,* choosing none, then be ready to leap for anyone better than all those you've seen so far.
Brian Christian
#69. SO DO THE THING. TAKE THE LEAP. TRY SOMETHING RIDICULOUS, OR CRAZY, OR BRAVE. NO MATTER HOW IT TURNS OUT, YOU WILL NEVER REGRET CHOOSING TO LIVE - WILD, BOLD, AND FREE.
Mandy Hale
#70. Lots of small steps equates to a giant leap.
Steven Magee
#71. Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.
Todd Stocker
#72. When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.
John O'Hurley
#73. Imagine the ton would leap from London Bridge if the marquess did it first. Mind you, he'd land on a cart carrying a feather mattress when he did it, whilst the rest of London would splatter.
Julie Anne Long
#74. The demand for good bookkeepers is at an all time high as more people make the leap into self-employment each year and need competent bookkeeping help.
Sylvia Jaumann
#75. A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.
George Arnold
#76. Talent helps mankind leap years.
Brilliance helps mankind leap decades.
Genius helps mankind leap centuries.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#77. The creative element in the mind of man ... emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.
Loren Eiseley
#78. Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn't just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.
Maya Banks
#79. Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.
Anais Nin
#80. Because two bodies, naked and entwined,
leap over time, they are invulnerable,
nothing can touch them, they return to the source,
there is no you, no I, no tomorrow,
no yesterday, no names, the truth of two
in a single body, a single soul,
oh total being ...
Octavio Paz
#81. How could they be in the same room and not joke about some smell or make fun of some clueless slouch nearby? How could she ever stand in front of him and not leap at the chance to communicate telepathically?
James Dashner
#82. "There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe."
Albert Einstein
#83. I used to love the storms when I was younger,' Grump said. "I would climb the cypresses and leap into the sky and roar at the thunder. There's nothing like flying into the rain and embracing the wind. It's true freedom.
Aaron Burdett
#84. What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.
Paul Theroux
#86. That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.
Rachel Caine
#87. I wanted to write some words you'd remember.
Words so alert they'd leap from the paper,
crawl up your shoulder, lie by your ears,
and purr themselves to you like baby kittens,
but it was rainy, so I laid there and daydreamed about you.
C.L. Foster
#88. Sometimes, if you want to live and breathe tomorrow, you have to dive into the black depths today, and that is a leap of faith - faith in your U-boat, and your crew - beside which the saints' religious epiphanies amount to nothing.
Neal Stephenson
#89. Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing
Tom Paulin
#90. If we never had the courage to take a leap of faith, we'd be cheating God out of a chance to mount us up with wings like eagles and watch us soar.
Jen Stephens
#91. The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
Walter Bagehot
#92. This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap ...
Adriana Trigiani
#93. We as a human community need to develop a new competency. We need to move from a single-cell social organism to a multicellular social organism. While making this evolutionary leap is no easy task, staring into the abyss is a strong motivator.
David Gershon
#94. Let's Elevate, Educate, and Empower Our Youth ... Not Incarcerate Them! Try To HELP Our Youth ... Don't HURT Them! Lord knows they'll have plenty of enough hurdles to leap over in their lives!
Timothy Pina
#95. When you loved someone, you couldn't hold back. Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe.
Martina Boone
#96. Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.
Ken Wilber
#97. Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
Sol LeWitt
#98. Take a leap into the unknown. I'll be here to catch you.
Stephanie John
#99. We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.
David Cameron
#100. The important things were sensitivity to impressions, intuitive judgment, character assessment, and also patient bargaining skills. It had never so much as occurred to him to jump over walls or leap from roof to roof.
Amos Oz
