Leap Quotes - Page 31

• At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

  Georges Bataille

  God, Men, Order

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• He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

  Jack Kroll

  Artist, Joy, Spirit

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• A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

  Mo Rocca

  Imagination, Torches, Caves

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• When I connect to my soul, project it into another #‎ character , and then bring it to the stage or to a film--that has always been for me the great joy of #‎ acting . It's been as if my soul kind of leaps out of my body and is able to be free and dance around.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Character, Joy, Soul

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• If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said - unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It’s like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder.

  Ann Coulter

  Talking, Two, Age

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• Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

  Mark Kingwell

  Regard

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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.

  William Tyndale

  Heart, Men, Joy

  William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ”, p.490

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• Moms are, in my opinion, the wonders of the universe. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound, they can go where no person has gone before, and they can somehow get toddlers to eat. The problem is that mothers are also some of the most stressed people on the planet. There's just so much to do and not enough of them.

  Kevin Leman

  Mom, Mother, People

  Dr. Kevin Leman (2012). “What a Difference a Mom Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Mom Leaves on Her Son's Life”, p.196, Baker Books

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• Let me leap naked through life's testing flame, And bear to lose, and yet endure to win.

  Kenneth Rand

  Life, Winning, Flames

  Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”

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• History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

  Julian Jaynes

  Moving, Learning, Knowledge

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.

  Sam Messer

  Faith, Knowing, Ends

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• It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

  James Nicoll

  Cat, Ceilings, Wake Up

  Usenet article "Gay and straight", groups.google.com. February 14, 2003.

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• If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

  Seth Godin

  Needs, Demand, Way

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• Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Black, Strange

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.128, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Two, Dangerous, Chasms

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Long, Progress, Our Words

  Nobel Lecture, delivered 5 May 2010, Oslo, Norway

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• It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts of interesting themes and ideas into their books, and so for me it was a short leap to go from the fantasy and Sci-Fi genres to folklore, mythology, ancient history and philosophy. I did not read philosophy because I set out to become a philosopher; I read it because it looked interesting.

  Terry Pratchett

  Philosophy, Book, Reading

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Twilight, Thinking, Soul

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• The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become the modern cosmologist who gazes at the same sky through the eyes of Einstein and sees the hand of God not in angels but in the constants of nature. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it¹s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.

  Tony Rothman

  Moving, Eye, Angel

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• The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Believe, Dark

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• The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.

  William A. Dembski

  Want, Resistance, Firsts

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• If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

  Liya Kebede

  Powerful, Trying, Ordinary

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• When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?

  Pablo Neruda

  Hands, Flight, Mines

  Pablo Neruda, “Your Hands”

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• Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

  George Eliot

  Long, Shadow, Dying

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.58

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• The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mind, Lightning, Brilliant

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