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No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60! -- Jonathan King
I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body. -- Rita Rudner
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative. -- Andre Norton
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. -- Helen Keller
If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event. -- George Packer
Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears. -- Joanna Southcott
Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable. -- Susan Orlean
Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source. -- Publilius Syrus
You couldn't catch a mouse if leaped in between your paws! -- Erin Hunter
The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed -- William Blake
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. -- Alexander Pope
Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love. -- Melissa de la Cruz
An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light. -- E. F. Benson
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped. -- Aesop
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went. -- Bernard Bailyn
Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone. -- Josephine Baker
Why is this so hard?" I whispered. His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. "Everything worth fighting for is hard. -- Rachel Vincent
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me." -- Lois McMaster Bujold
I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood. -- Charles Spurgeon
It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. -- John Milton
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. -- Ray Bradbury
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. -- Edmund Burke
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She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free... -- Kate Morton
As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet. -- Emma Donoghue
As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich. -- Sarah Dessen
You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea. -- Emma Goldman
Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears! -- Maria Weston Chapman
How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God. -- Dorothy Day

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