Jumping Quotes - Page 12

• I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Spiritual, Wings, Way

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• I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim

  Alec Broers, Baron Broers

  Believe, Athlete, Swim

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• Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead. - A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.

  Lauren Oliver

  Children, Sick, Cracks

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Fire, Forever

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Aug 03, 2016

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• [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queue­jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Strong, People

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• Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.

  Nora Roberts

  Morning, Thinking, Feet

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• This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of it, smoking too much and growing too thin and having stray thoughts of jumping from my balcony like a tortured heroine in a Russian novel.

  Paula McLain

  Years, Two, Smoking

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.33, Ballantine Books

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• Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.” A primal growl signaled Miss Lynn getting over her shock at being thus addressed. She lunged forward; Jack deftly rolled off the bench, jumping up out of her reach. “Goodness, I didn’t expect you to be quite this enthusiastic about my advances. If I don’t play hard to get, how will I ever know whether or not you respect me?

  Kiersten White

  Sweet, Children, Play Hard

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• Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Butterfly, Dark, Thinking

  Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Icarus Girl”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

  Michael Cunningham

  Sexy, Tragedy, Bed

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• Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.

  Jack Kerouac

  Running, Beach, Wine

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.7, Penguin

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• It makes you very cool," he said, taking big, jumping steps to get in front of me. "CNN would interview you, for sure. Daughter of Flobie! But don't worry. I'll keep them back!

  Maureen Johnson

  Daughter, Cnn, Worry

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.33, Penguin

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• In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon.

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Cat, Moon, Green

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• Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby." This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.

  Eoin Colfer

  Giving, Orion, Centaurs

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• It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

  Alan Moore

  Skeletons, Closets, Bounds

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• And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, which had always worked on the damned in the past. This time they had earned him a whack on the nose that had made his eyes water. Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls. He was looking forward to a further cat experiment, which he planned would consist of jumping around and yapping excitedly at it. It was a long shot, but it just might work.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Mean, Cat

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, ‎Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Suicide, Self Harm, Thinking

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

  Maurice Sendak

  Crazy, Yummy, Eyebrows

  "Maurice Sendak: 'I refuse to lie to children'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2011.

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• Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Boulders, Sound

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.65, Penguin

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• What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

  J. D. Salinger

  Suicide, Stupid, Done

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• Eureka! Eureka!
  Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.

  Archimedes

  Running, Discovery, Water

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• Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few moments in meditation your brain has almost stopped. ... You forget the body. ... You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sleep, Light, Giving

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• It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the mind, it can be put aside. One can become disidentified with the mind. To know "I am not the mind," is real purity because then you are only consciousness, awareness, a witnessing. To live twenty-four hours a day as a witness is the way of the sannyasin.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Mean, Meditation

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• Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspiration, Airplane, Entrepreneur

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• Heaven and hell are not very distant, they are neighbors; only a small fence divides them. You can jump that fence, even without a gate. You go on jumping from this to that. In the morning you may be in heaven; by evening you are in hell. This moment heaven, that moment hell. It is just an attitude, just a state of your mind, just how you are feeling. Many times, in a single life, you may visit hell, and many times you may visit heaven. In a single day also.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Attitude, Heaven

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