Temerity Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. — Samuel Johnson
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey… — Meredith Willson
All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek… — Peter Medawar
The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,… — William Blackstone
Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If… — Arcangela Tarabotti
Some people say homosexuality is a sin. Itâ€™s not. God is perfectly cool with it, God feels the exact same way about homosexuality that God… — Ted Alexandro
You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to… — Fred Hollows
Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal. — Bill Bryson
If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep… — Rod Serling
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop… — Kary Mullis
Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them… — Jose Clemente Orozco
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most… — Virginia Woolf
Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the… — Guy Gavriel Kay
I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. â€œGod do this, God donâ€™t do that.â€ I thought God probably laughed at them too,… — Jean Plaidy
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have… — Michel de Montaigne
Temerity is not always successful. — Livy

Who Wrote These Temerity Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Temerity Quotes as follows: