Dared Quotes
232 quotes by 194 authors
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Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep…
— Jean Cocteau
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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…
— Maya Angelou
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have…
— Wilbur Smith
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
— Tacitus
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference.…
— John Shelby Spong
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No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate…
— Aldous Huxley
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court…
— Abraham Lincoln
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This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative. Our training is…
— Rajneesh
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My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.
— Ian Woosnam
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We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
— Meister Eckhart
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O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world…
— Walter Raleigh
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I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has…
— Adele
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Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!
— Bill Brandt
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People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them,…
— Freddie Mercury
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I had the honor to meet Geraldine Ferraro on a few occasions over the years at the DNC and what struck me was how she…
— Adrienne Maloof
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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
— Aristotle
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When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of…
— Shirley Chisholm
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Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them,…
— Holly Lisle
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