Audacious Quotes · Page 2

When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the…

— George Allen

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation…

— Mohammed Arkoun

I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have…

— Stephen Merchant

When you set a goal, it's a personal thing, and that goal should be very big, hairy and audacious.

— Tony Bates

I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution,…

— Andy Warhol

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

— Alphonse Karr

Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon,…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist…

— Jess Walter

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.

— Dan Winters

Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

— M. Night Shyamalan

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to…

— Ronald Reagan

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I…

— Edie Campbell

Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life…

— Martin Amis

[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . .…

— Marsilio Ficino

Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.

— J. D. Greear

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians -…

— Jules Verne

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could…

— Douglas Wilder

[On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do…

— Madame de Stael

The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or…

— Warren G. Bennis

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

— Juvenal