Dare Quotes

1. "Then she said she wondered if she really loved me or not. I, of course, couldn't enlighten her as to that. And, after another silence, she murmured something about my being "a queer fellow." "And I daresay that's why I love you," she added. "But maybe that's why one day I'll come to hate you."
Author: Albert Camus

2. "I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain."
Author: Anaïs Nin

3. "If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict"
Author: Antonio Nuñez Lopez

4. "Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare."
Author: Bill Brandt

5. "Old lady judges watch people in pairsLimited in sex, they dareTo push fake morals, insult and stareWhile money doesn't talk, it swearsObscenity, who really caresPropaganda, all is phony."
Author: Bob Dylan

6. "Fairy tales are not real. However, myths are the historical notes of those who were much wiser than ourselves. We therefore have no right to judge legends; lest we dare challenge demigods and angels."
Author: C. JoyBell C.

7. "As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say."
Author: Connie Nielsen

8. "The Los Angeles parade would begin in Griffith Park, where a large crowd would assemble and the speeches would be given. Every politician of consequence would be there. There was no way they would miss a chance to publicly praise the troops and honor those who had lost their lives in service.Some of the tributes would be sincere and heartfelt, and some less so. But participating in the event, vowing undying support for the U.S. military, was an absolute must to maintain political viability. It was okay to vote to cut funds for veterans' healthcare, but don't dare miss a chance to jump on the Memorial Day bandwagon."
Author: David Rosenfelt

9. "Eve followed him into the building. No one would dare frisk her, and she entered Beckett's inner sanctum fully armed—not that she needed her weapons."
Author: Debra Anastasia

10. "You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?How much can you lose? How much can you win?"
Author: Dr. Seuss

11. "Voglio lasciarmi andare, voglio di più per me, voglio buttarmi per cadere verso l'alto."
Author: Fabio Volo

12. "E per tutto il giorno mi riempivano la testa di stronzate che volevano farmi tenere a mente, come ad esempio le equazioni per calcolare la distanza fra il posto dove ci trovavamo e quelle in cui volevano farci andare loro, e naturalmente quelle per tornare indietro; cazzate come le coordinate coassiali, il calcolo dei coseni, la trigonometria sferoide, l'algebra di Boolean, gli antilogaritmi, l'analisi di Fourier, quadrati e matrici. Mi dissero che io avrei dovuto fare da riserva al computer di riserva."
Author: Forrest Gump

13. "Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!"
Author: Freddie Mercury

14. "How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value."
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

15. "Rain, in your glorious presence, Miss Temminnick? I hardly think it should dare."
Author: Gail Carriger

16. "There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!"
Author: Gene Stratton Porter

17. "The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas."
Author: Gioconda Belli

18. "May we see our paths clearly, may we follow them truly, and may the roads we walk always bring us back together safely from wherever we have wandered, to wherever we dare call home."
Author: Holly Lisle

19. "Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and ore qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves."
Author: Howard Schultz

20. "Non si può vivere in questo mondo, ma non c'è nessun altro posto dove andare."
Author: Jack Kerouac

21. "U dare to threaten me?"she retaliated, gaining her feet as she faced off with the Enforcer in what had to be the most unwise action in Council history since the decision to go to war with the Druids."
Author: Jacquelyn Frank

22. "I want to fulfill myself in one of the rarest of destinies. I have only a dim notion of what it ?will be. I want it to have not a graceful curve slightly bent toward evening but a hitherto unseen beauty ?lovely because of the danger which works away at it overwhelms it undermines it. Oh let me be only utter? beauty I shall go quickly or slowly but I shall dare what must be dared. I shall destroy appearances the ?casings will burn away and one evening I shall appear there in the palm of your hand quiet and pure like a? glass statuette. You will see me. Round about me there will be nothing left."
Author: Jean Genet

23. "I did not buy a book called Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson, which has the temerity to compare itself, on the front cover, to 'Tolkien at his best.' The back cover attributes the quote to the Washington Post, a newspaper whose quotations will always damn a book for me from now on. How dare they? And how dare the publishers? It isn't a comparison anyone could make, except to say 'Compared to Tolkien at his best, this is dross.' I mean you could say that even about really brilliant books like A Wizard of Earthsea. I expect Lord Foul's Bane (horrible title, sounds like a Conan book) is more like Tolkien at his worst, which would be the beginning of The Simarillion.The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect."
Author: Jo Walton

24. "But who will dare to speak the truth out clear?The few who anything of truth have learned,And foolishly did not keep truth concealed,Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed,Since time began we've crucified and burned"
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

25. "I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death."
Author: John H. Johnson

26. "Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do."
Author: John Steinbeck

27. "As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men. And when the wine was gone they went down the hill arm in arm for comradeship and safety, and they walked into Monterey. In front of an enlistment station they cheered loudly for America and dared Germany to do her worst. They howled menaces at the German Empire until the enlistment sergeant awakened and put on his uniform and came into the street to silence them. He remained to enlist them."
Author: John Steinbeck

28. "They'll all be waiting. Waiting for me to fall. So, come on , guys. I'm just one girl. No big hero, no protector of justice, not even a bona fide one-hundred-percent slayer. So what are you waiting for?Take me on.Hurt my world. I dare you."
Author: Joss Whedon

29. "Fine," I say. "Dare accepted."Game on, Skater Girl. Game on."
Author: Katie McGarry

30. "There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice."
Author: Kurt Huber

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Author: Lavie Tidhar

32. "Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint."
Author: Martin Luther

33. "Boy, dont you dare leave me. Stay with me forever and ever. Sleep with me, my love. Kiss me. touch my body, feel me."
Author: Matt Trevitz

34. "My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still."
Author: Maya Angelou

35. "The lie detector didn't react to anything I said, but I wouldn't dare smile."
Author: Maya Bode

36. "I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media."
Author: Milton Babbitt

37. "If you dare go before me, I will haunt you in the afterlife.To be haunted by my heart is no threat."
Author: Nalini Singh

38. "Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing."
Author: Olaf Stapledon

39. "How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!"
Author: Oriana Fallaci

40. "Whether that lady's gentle mind, No longer with the form combinedWhich scattered love, as stars do light, Found sadness where it left delight,I dare not guess; but in this lifeOf error, ignorance, and strife,Where nothing is, but all things seem,And we the shadows of the dream,It is a modest creed, and yetPleasant if one considers it,To own that death itself must be,Like all the rest, a mockery.That garden sweet, that lady fair,And all sweet shapes and odors there,In truth have never passed away:'Tis we, 'tis ours, are changed; not they.For love, and beauty, and delight, There is no death or change: their mightExceeds our organs, which endureNo light, being themselves obscure.(--Conclusion, Autumn - A Dirge)"
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

41. "They want the centurions not so much to be venturesome and daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be ready to die at their posts."
Author: Polybius

42. "If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it."
Author: Rory Bremner

43. "It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another."
Author: Stephen Crane

44. "Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China."
Author: Steve Forbes

45. "She folded her arms and then shouted, "Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats!""Oh, waily, waily, it's the foldin' o' the arms, the foooldin' o' the aaaarmss!" cried Daft Wullie, dropping to the ground and trying to cover himself with leaves. Around him Feegles started to wail and cower and Big Yan began to bang his head on the rear wall of the dairy."
Author: Terry Pratchett

46. "In this place of light: he dares to liveWho stops being a bird, yet beats his wingsAgainst the immense immeasurable emptiness of things."
Author: Theodore Roethke

47. "He seemed to say to Fate: You wouldn't dare."
Author: Victor Hugo

48. "Le parole sono anche molto democratiche; pensano che una parola sia buona come un'altra; che le parole rozze valgano quanto quelle educate; che quelle incolte siano uguali a quelle colte, non esistono classi o titoli di merito nella loro società. E non amano essere sollevate in punta di penna ed esaminate una per una. Restano sempre unite in frasi, in paragrafi, e a volte per intere pagine di fila. Odiano essere utili; odiano dover far soldi; odiano andare in giro a tenere conferenze. In breve, odiano qualsiasi cosa che imponga loro un unico significato, o che le immobilizzi in un'unica posa, perché cambiare fa parte della loro natura."
Author: Virginia Woolf

49. "And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason, only one, why, flinging decency to the winds, you demeaned yourself by becoming a baker.' 'Hunger."
Author: W. Somerset Maugham

50. "Don't wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle. Live it up and dare to leave an impact. There is no rehearsal."
Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour

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