#leaps

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#another #extreme #knows #leaps #nothing

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

#bigger #bold #box #cave #computer

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#bottom #bottom line #bounds #growing #kiss

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#better #board #calmly #chess #good

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. ↗

— Walter Scott

#fruit #gulf #his #leaps #prevail

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#computer #divine #finger #god #land

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

#boundaries #changes #creates #gifts #inexplicable

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#certain #chair #energy #extremely #forceful

To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#leap-before-you-look #leap-of-faith #leaps #life #living-life

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#barriers #destination #fences #full #hope