Being Bold And Daring Quotes

1. "Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, "We want it now, in our lifetime. " We want to see apartheid in South Africa come down right now. We want to see the war in Central America stop right now. We want the CIA off our campus right now. We want an end to sexual harassment in our communities right now. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now."
Author: Abbie Hoffman

2. "At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn, sweet song. (I know now that it was Beethoven's Romance in F.) I listened, and suddenly it was as if the fog that surrounded me had been penetrated, as if I were being spoken to."
Author: Jennifer Paynter

3. "A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information."
Author: Jimmy Wales

4. "Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?""I love to swim, too." said Adam."So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together."
Author: Katherine Anne Porter

5. "Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: -(1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities(2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals;(3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life."
Author: Milan Kundera

6. "For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the believer cannot rest till it be healed up, closed up, smeared with the soothing balm of an answer, even if his doctrine be a sophisticated one like Aquinas's or that of the latest Liberal Protestant theologian."
Author: Robert M. Price

7. "I would wish it on no one to be me.Only I am capable of being myself.To know so much, to have seen so much, andTo say nothing, just about nothing."
Author: Robert Walser

8. "He speaks of himself as of another. Himself he devises too for company. Leave it at that. Confusion too is company up to a point. Better hope deferred than none. Up to a point. Till the heart starts to sicken. Company too up to a point. Better a sick heart than none. Till it starts to break. So speaking of himself he concludes for the time being, For the time being leave it at that."
Author: Samuel Beckett

9. "Mama," Bubba said as he came out of the back. "I can't beat up everyone in the world for being stupid. Have you seen how many of them are out there? I work retail. Trust me. The world's eat up with it. And aren't you the one that's always saying, 'you can't fix stupid, son so don't try?' Besides, I got better things to do with my time than fight every idiot I come into contat with."
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

10. "TOBIAS:Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around.Nothing's gonna harm you, no sir, not while I'm around.Demons are prowling everywhere, nowadays,I'll send 'em howling, I don't care, I got ways.No one's gonna hurt you, No one's gonna dare.Others can desert you, Not to worry, whistle, I'll be there.Demons'll charm you with a smile, for a while,But in time...Nothing can harm youNot while I'm around...Not to worry, not to worryI may not be smart, but I ain't dumbI can do it, put me to itShow me something, I can overcome.Not to worry, mum.Being close and being clever Ain't like being trueI don't need to, I would never hide a thing from you,Like some...MRS. LOVETT:Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around.Nothing's gonna harm you, darling, not while I'm around.TOBIAS:Demons'll charm you with a smile, for a while,But in time...Nothing's gonna harm youNot while I'm around..."
Author: Stephen Sondheim

11. "The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is."
Author: Terry Goodkind

12. "The stubborn of a captive mentality can be clearly seen in the formulation of national development plans in most developing nations where the fundamental meaning and criteria of knowledge and development, modernization and reform, progress and change, happiness, tolerance, pluralism and their respective antonyms - such as under-development and corruption - are all derived from Western frameworks. Sometimes the strangest phenomenon surfaces - such as when the methodology of understanding and teaching indigenous religions is regarded as being uncritical and less objective if it does not utilize the methods developed by Western scholars in the understanding and teaching Western religions and religious texts."
Author: Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud

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