Dare Quotes
1597 Dare quotes by 1049 unique authors
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In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be…
— Paul Brand
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When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant…
— Douglas Harding
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Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn…
— Horace
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
— Petrarch
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion,…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder;…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
— Honore de Balzac
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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest…
— William Hazlitt
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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of...
— Michelangelo
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The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.
— Edwin Arnold
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Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without…
— John Keble
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For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
— George Herbert
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The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.
— William Cowper
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Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
— Alistair Cooke
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A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.
— W. Edwards Deming
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Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.
— Paul Gauguin
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Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let…
— Charles Churchill
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Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
— Charles Churchill
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Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something…
— Pablo Casals
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The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.
— Joanna Baillie
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The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads…
— Rosie Perez
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
— Edward Weston
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Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
— Edward Weston
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