(5 quotes found)
“If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies; if the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.”
Vincent van Gogh
“When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.”
James Agee
“The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race”
Robert Frost
“He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.”
Bible
“Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.”
Thomas Willis
