(140 quotes found)
“Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.”
Walter Benjamin
“The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree.”
William Shakespeare
“The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.”
William Lloyd Garrison
“Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia”
Alexis Carrel
“There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals...”
Ben Stein
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
Jerome Bruner
“Look before you leap”
Proverb
“The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps”
David Lloyd George
“Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep”
“Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and toes like an opportunity land crab, it will coil round your thighs like a bushmaster and inject a shot glass of rancid ectoplasm.”
William S. Burroughs
