1. "In quantum mechanics no object has a definite position, except when colliding headlong with something else."
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Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
2. "He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life."
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Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
3. "The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in Is termed violent by no one."
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Quote by Bertolt Brecht
4. "There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own."
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Mary Oliver, Felicity: Poems
5. "Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes"
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Meg Rosoff, What I Was
6. "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ~ but like lemmings running headlong to the sea, we are oblivious."
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Quote by William Wordsworth
7. "...distraught I seize mine arms…And with my comrades hasten to the hold: frenzy and anger urge my headlong will, and death methinks how comely, sword in hand!"
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Virgil, The Aeneid
8. "rushing headlong into the next thing, we fail to appreciate the blessing of the only thing we can really claim as ours to own, the present moment."
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Katrina Kenison, Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment
9. "That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance."
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Stefan Zweig, The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
10. "I despise rushing headlong into a mystery. Much more satisfying to dip in a toe, test the waters, ease in slowly before we start to swim."
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Shannon Hale, Midnight in Austenland