Dare Quotes - Page 29

• The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Giving, Desire

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe (1823). “Complete dramatic works and miscellaneous poems”, p.9

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• Isi, I’m trying to say that you’ve been… no, you’re so, you’re–” He stopped. "You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held her finger tightly, as though he did not dare to do any more than hold her one hand, and look at her, and breathe deeply.

  Shannon Hale

  Hands, Trying, Looks

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.202, A&C Black

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• I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Ideas, Details, Way

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.117, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands, I dare you to work that last sentence into a conversation. "By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight's magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?")

  Brandon Sanderson

  Cutting, Rocks, Mushrooms

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.127, Macmillan

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• I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

  Bram Stoker

  Fear, Thinking, Sea

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.18, Zillmann Publishing

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• To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

  Marcel Proust

  Artist, World, Failing

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• There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

  James M. Barrie

  Firsts, Lovers, Mets

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

  Neil Gaiman

  Risk, Ifs, Risk-taking

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.142, A&C Black

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• If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back and haunt you. I'll make your life a complete misery. No ghost will ever have been as inventive in its nastiness as I'll be: I'll turn your food rancid; I'll transform your drink into blood; I'll howl and moan throughout the night; there'll be no place safe from me. And don't think I couldn't do it, Thirrin, Queen of Icemark, because I can assure you, I could.

  Stuart Hill

  Queens, Night, Thinking

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• We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

  Kate DiCamillo

  World, Asks, Ifs

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.597, Candlewick Press

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• Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.

  John Steinbeck

  Lazy, Looks, Way

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.392, Penguin

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• Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Time, Air, Names

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• I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Momentum, Virtue, Balancing Act

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Believe, Cheer Up

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• She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in and breathed them out. A voice played the notes inside her. This, it said, is your accordion.

  Markus Zusak

  Eye, Voice, Looks

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• Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?

  Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

  Quality, Ifs, Uncertainty

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• You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.

  Edward Bloor

  Want, Chance

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• I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!

  Jenny Downham

  Hurt, Love You, Before I Die

  Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.261, Random House

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• I saw a spider, I didn't scream 'Cause I can belch the alphabet Just double dog dare me And I chose guitar over ballet
  And I tape these suckers down 'Cause they just get in my way The way you look at me Is kind of like a little sister
  You high five your goodbyes And it leaves me nothing but blisters So I don't want to be one of the boys.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Goodbye, Dog

  "Song: "One of the Boys"". June 17, 2008.

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• Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Flames, Hands

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 653

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• Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

  Dean Koontz

  Kindness, Winning, Knowing

  Dean Koontz, “Dragon Tears”

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• I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart.

  Yann Martel

  Goodbye, Dream, Pain

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Dream, Victory

  "Reaction to Obama elected 1st black US president", www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2008.

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• Did he dare trust this insane boy?

  Brom

  Boys, Insane

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