Dare Quotes
1597 Dare quotes by 1049 unique authors
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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The Russians train; they do not dare educate.
— Max Lerner
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It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The…
— Gore Vidal
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If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would…
— John Ruskin
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Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.
— Robert Breault
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I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a…
— Madonna Ciccone
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Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
— Phillips Brooks
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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
— Arthur Miller
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It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But…
— Robertson Davies
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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the…
— Aleister Crowley
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See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.
— W. S. Gilbert
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
— Wole Soyinka
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When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.
— Amaury Nolasco
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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…
— Connie Nielsen
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Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists.…
— Ludwig Quidde
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I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have…
— Stuart Rose
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People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it…
— Cristina Saralegui
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No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one…
— Greta Van Susteren
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It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they…
— Shepard Smith
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The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few…
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
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