Daring Quotes - Page 7

• And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mean, Men, Enduring Love

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1082, Delphi Classics

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• Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

  George W. Bush

  Ambition, Missions, Afghanistan

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• We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, War, May

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

  Gloria Steinem

  Knowing, Creative, Inspire

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• Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

  Andrew Sarris

  America, Avant Garde, Today

  "Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows" by Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

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• He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

  Washington Irving

  Dare, Deserve

  Washington Irving, Pierre M. IRVING (1867). “Biographies and Miscellaneous Papers ... Collected and arranged by P. Irving”, p.207

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• Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

  Polly Adler

  Life, Heart, Mind

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.348, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.

  Steven Furtick

  Christian, Believe, Sleep

  Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.7, Multnomah

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• Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

  Robert Ardrey

  Charity, Classic, Cowardice

  Robert Ardrey (1977). “The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man”

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• Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Beautiful, Ideas, Rich

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• The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

  Gosta Mittag-Leffler

  Dream, Art, Math

  "Mathematical Maxims and Minims". Book by Nicholas J. and John de Pillis Rose, 1988.

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• Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

  Brené Brown

  Mean, Feelings, Mindfulness

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• God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Men, Soul, Looks

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• A fiery soul, which working out its way,
  Fretted the pygmy-body to decay:
  And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
  A daring pilot in extremity;
  Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high
  He sought the storms...

  John Dryden

  Work Out, Soul, Storm

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

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• All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Failure, Achievement, Risk

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• Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.

  Ann Aguirre

  World, Weight, Lips

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• Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

  Catherine Anderson

  Fear, Real, Mean

  Catherine Anderson (2009). “Comanche Heart”, p.193, Penguin

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• You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.

  Eloise Jarvis McGraw

  Thinking, Speak, Characteristics

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• Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Abiding, Earth, Enthusiasm

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• To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.

  Thomas Mann

  Running, Fashion, Art

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• I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mad, Flying, Devil

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing

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• Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, The Other Enlightenment links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern.

  Natalie Zemon Davis

  Philosophical, Struggle, Independent

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• I'm talking about: Are we competing today, every minute, in everything we do in practice. Are we letting loose and daring to be great here and now? And can we sustain that? And repeat it. Trophies are great, but we're trying to win forever.

  Pete Carroll

  Winning, Talking, Practice

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

  Janet Burroway

  Book, Writing, Spinning

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• Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Hopeful, Century

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