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Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling. -- Holly Near
Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark. -- I. L. Peretz
Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new. -- Nick Gordon
I'm being followed by a moon shadow Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow... Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light ...and are you going to stay the night? -- Cat Stevens
I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer. -- A. A. Milne
I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight. -- C. Thomas Howell
I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits. -- Ritchie Blackmore
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like. -- Joanna Lumley
And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw. -- Joe Shuster
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. -- e. e. cummings
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! -- Beverly Cleary
I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact. -- Steven Gerrard
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile. -- Robert Cormier
The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that. -- Joe Shuster
The 3D thing has been abused slightly, I think. There is no question about that. 'Avatar' did it magnificently, and then, of course, there was the old 'leaping on the bandwagon' thing where there have been one or two films which, let's face it, all know look bloody awful with the 3D. -- Martin Campbell
Love is a warm brain, not a leaping heart. -- Tim Lebbon
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark. -- Plato
Jailbait," he declared, leaping up. "You're a saint. A goddess, even. -- Richelle Mead
You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut. -- James Broughton
Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything. -- Jerry Coleman
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. -- Elbert Hubbard
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. -- Thomas Hood
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile. -- Miguel de Cervantes
It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing -- Bill Wyman
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies. -- John Cleese
If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously. -- James Herriot
There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option. -- Jeph Jacques
I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd. -- H. G. Wells
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it. -- Elbert Hubbard
Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really. -- Cassandra Clare
madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged. -- Virginia Woolf
You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who's leaping up and down on a bed. -- John Irving
If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters. -- Robert Browning
This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie. -- Eric Burdon
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But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. -- John Updike
The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake. -- Wallace Stevens
I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits -- Ritchie Blackmore
There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head. -- Daniel Handler
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and Eternal Knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses. -- Sri Aurobindo
What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached. -- Rumi
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. -- Thomas Hardy
Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order. -- Maggie Scarf
Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. -- Herman Melville
Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land. -- Carter Heyward
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It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake. -- Susan Sontag
Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag. -- P. G. Wodehouse
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea. -- D. H. Lawrence
Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself. -- Sue Monk Kidd
and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery. -- Pam Brown
The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, ...I burn each second of my life to Love Each second of my life burns out in Love In each leaping second Love lives afresh. -- Rumi
And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.' -- Tommy Cooper
I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats! -- Scott Lynch

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