Best wish & leap Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.”

People Way Has Beens Made Past Wish Revolution Crisis Democratic Painful Leap Farming Industrial Revolution Recoil

Book:The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

Source: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

“I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.”

Ideas Wish Lovers Possession Cures Leap Fanaticism Unreasonable

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.”

People Matter Wish Social Mountain Affair Leap Goats Mules

Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become the modern cosmologist who gazes at the same sky through the eyes of Einstein and sees the hand of God not in angels but in the constants of nature. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it¹s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.”

“You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.”

Might Next Wish Bits Steps Breaths Bottom Leap Stairs

Book:The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel

Source: The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel

“The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.”

Life Action Order Wish Secret Magic Leap Penetrate Magic Of Life

Author:Lu Yen-hsun

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