Dare Quotes - Page 32

• Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Hope, Promise, No Fear

  "My Christmas-New Year-Vacation-Aspiration-Prayers" by Sri Chinmoy, (Part 26), 2003.

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• I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Mean, Ambition

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.5760, Delphi Classics

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• Alice: "No one will dare to call you plain when I'm through with you." Bella: "Only because they're afraid you'll suck their blood.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Blood

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• Hermione, will you please —” “Don’t you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!” she screeched. “Don’t you dare! Give it back now! And YOU!” She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps.

  J. K. Rowling

  Giving, Potters, Steps

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• This time Magnus answered it, his voice booming through the tiny entryway. "WHO DARES DISTURB MY REST?" Jace looked almost nervous. "Jace Wayland. Remember? I'm from the Clave." "Oh, yes." Magnus seemed to have perked up. "Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "He means Alec," Clary said helpfully. "No. My eyes are usually described as golden," Jace told the intercom. "And luminous." "Oh, you're that one." Magnus sounded disappointed. If Clary hadn't been so upset, she would have laughed. "I suppose you'd better come up.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Eye, Blue

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Faythe…?" The tremor in his voice broke my heart. Then understanding surfaced, and his tear-filled eyes searched mine desperately. "No. No," he whispered through clenched teeth. "This was not wrong. It’s the only thing I’ve done right in months. Don’t you dare regret this.

  Rachel Vincent

  Regret, Heart, Eye

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• I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

  Elizabeth I

  Hate, Lying, Grieving

  c.1582 'On Monsieur's Departure'.

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• The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Way, Never Let Me Go

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.73, Faber & Faber

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• In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Book, Other Worlds

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.6, Ballantine Books

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• A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Character, Bakers, May

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

  William Golding

  Strong, Children, School

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• As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Troops, Looks

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 22

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• I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Running, People, Different

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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• Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just...I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away again as her shyness smothers her. "So, do you think it'd be all right if we don't talk?

  Markus Zusak

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.65, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sweet, Nature, Morning

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

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• In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.

  Milan Kundera

  Emotion, Sincerity, Pathos

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• But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

  Laura Lippman

  Thinking, Facts, Lines

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• What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Character, Maturity

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• Then come on up. DO everyone a favor and shut me up," he said. "Put down your money, pick up that ball, and let it fly, looker." "I'd rather not" People laughed. He flapped his arms and squawked like a chicken "Afraid you can't throw that far?" "I know I can" He lifted his hat in a small salute to my claim. Blond curls slipped out, then he plopped the hat back on and said, "I dare you.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  People, Hats, Curls

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• How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

  John Mayer

  Baby, Light, Saws

  Song: Slow Dancing In A Burning Room, Album: Continuum, 2006

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• It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.

  Alexander Lowen

  Children, Pain, People

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• I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

  Janet Fitch

  Mom, Mother, Imagine

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, to put our mouths in the dust, if so be there may be hope -- here is fortitude indeed.

  F.B. Meyer

  Strong, Dust, Silence

  F.B. Meyer (2002). “Paul: A Servant of Jesus Christ”, p.40, CLC Publications

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• I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen to music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He won't stand a beating. Now, if only you kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you like with the clock.

  Lewis Carroll

  Clock, Beats, Spokes

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• Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

  Georgette Heyer

  Arrogant, Imagine, Deny

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Sylvester”, p.342, Random House

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