Daring Quotes - Page 11

• There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

  Cornelia Funke

  Clever, Powerful, Book

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• No one looks like Fang-dark and still and dangerous, like he's daring you to set him off. But I'd seen him rocking Angel when she'd hurt herself; I'd seen him smile in his sleep; I'd seen the deep, darkl ight in his eyes as he leaned over me... ~Max; "Max"; page 24

  James Patterson

  Hurt, Sleep, Eye

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• FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes -- do you recall? And we did make so many! For there were countless numbers of stars: each time we looked above we were astounded by the swiftness of their daring play, while in our hearts we felt safe and secure watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate, knowing somehow we had survived their fall.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Horse, Stars, Fall

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Ernest Flemming (1986). “Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems”, p.210, Psychology Press

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• Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

  Janet Frame

  Mistake, Paper, Toilets

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• I love to experiment with fashion. A lot of my inspiration comes from my mom. She is fearless with fashion! I love colors and anything daring.

  Neon Hitch

  Mom, Fashion, Inspiration

  "Runway Insider: Neon Hitch Offers Her Best Fashion Advice". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 7, 2012.

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• I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.

  William Beckett

  Real, Stories, Littles

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• Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Ideas, Magic

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• I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

  Maya Angelou

  Strong, Heart, Son

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2015

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• I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Challenges, Daring To Be Great

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• All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Iron, History, Endurance

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.93, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, War, May

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

  George W. Bush

  Ambition, Missions, Afghanistan

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• He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

  Washington Irving

  Dare, Deserve

  Washington Irving, Pierre M. IRVING (1867). “Biographies and Miscellaneous Papers ... Collected and arranged by P. Irving”, p.207

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• Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, The Other Enlightenment links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern.

  Natalie Zemon Davis

  Philosophical, Struggle, Independent

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• Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top of a vertical hierarchy. To be an artist is to suffer and to lead a life without shelter. It takes a great amount of daring-do, self reinvention, imagination, familial loyalty, sacrifice, economic uncertainty, and the right to be wrong, the right to fail in order to achieve something of noticeable value.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Artist

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• George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.

  Brian May

  Spiritual, Stars, Simple

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• There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for it.

  Jamie Chung

  Hangover, Creative, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence to take a few risks and make those dreams a reality. You'll be glad you did.

  Donald MacRae

  Dream, Ambition, Reality

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• For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

  Taylor Schilling

  Being Yourself, Actors, World

  "Daring Talk: Orange is the New Black". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.

  Julia Serano

  Empowering, World, Revolutionary

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• Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

  Andrew Sarris

  America, Avant Garde, Today

  "Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows" by Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

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• Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

  Polly Adler

  Life, Heart, Mind

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.348, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

  Gloria Steinem

  Knowing, Creative, Inspire

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• The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Doors, Blood

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cheer, Heart, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

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