- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Headlong Quotes
Words on rushing forward without looking back.
These headlong quotes capture what happens when people, nations, or movements plunge forward without hesitation — a revolution refusing to slow, a fall from a high place, a country racing to industrialize. For more on that same unchecked Movement, browse our related collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.
- Another Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.
- Beard
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
- Government Officials
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
- Deficit Reduction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020