Leap Quotes - Page 24

• A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail. Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dark, Clouds, Years

  "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, www.nytimes.com. 1963.

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• Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Animal, Men, Mammals

  Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.340, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I was heart broken, scared, I had a lot of anxiety, I was worried, I felt weak, and I had no idea how I was ever going to come up with the strength. But I just closed my eyes, and took a blind leap. I knew I had to get out of there.

  Bob Casey, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Ideas

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Dancer, Ballet

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• 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

  Pain, People, Political

  Walter Bagehot, Ruth Dudley Edwards (1993). “The best of Bagehot”

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• Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.

  John Lennox

  Commitment, Dark, Intelligent

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• I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Laughing, Leader, Feelings

  "Adolf Eichmann, the Evil Architect of the Holocaust in WW2" by Nikola Budanovic, www.warhistoryonline.com. August 22, 2016.

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• When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

  Sharon Olds

  Heart, Half, Sides

  "Pulitzer Prize-Winner Sharon Olds Talks Poetry, Divorce" By Brittany Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

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• Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Long, Joy

  Walt Whitman, “Joy, Shipmate, Joy!”

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• The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Country, Media, Anarchy

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Before you take the leap, before you jump, really make sure it's going to be something you want to get out of bed [to do] everyday, because it is so hard. So you want to make sure that you're really committed.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Everyday, Bed, Want

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• 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

  Inspiring, Commitment, Expectations

  John O'Hurley (2006). “It's Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump: And Other Life Lessons I Learned from Dogs”, p.33, Penguin

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• For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Heart, Men, Rivers

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• The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.

  Willy Ley

  Space, Giants, Remember

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• Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to Jesus will make you watchful and swift to rise up and cast out the subtle enemy. Do this and you shall live, and live victoriously.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Love, Christian, Loyalty

  Samuel Logan Brengle (1929). “Ancient Prophets: With a Series of Occasional Papers on Modern Problems”

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• What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Women, Writing

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• Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Taken, Dark, Would Be

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• Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.

  David Lynch

  Fear, People, Creative

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• I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Hate, Book

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• 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

  Kids, Sound, Fans

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• As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Running, Fall, Writing

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.95, Penguin

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• After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

  Maureen Forrester

  Years, Careers, World

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• Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

  Marguerite Young

  Long, People, Community

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more: like thought, like water, history is fluid, unpredictable, dangerous. It leaps and surges and doubles back, cuts unpredictable channels, surfaces suddenly in places no one would expect.

  Mark Slouka

  Running, Cutting, Water

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• In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.

  J.P. Moreland

  Believe, Dark, Biblical

  J. P. Moreland, William Lane Craig (2009). “Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview”, p.18, InterVarsity Press

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