Quotes About Daring

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I like action more than anything touchy-feely.

I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'

I've had motorcycle accidents!

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

While it was considered a risky move, I have always believed that faith and risk are synonymous. If there is no risk you don't need faith. The nature of faith is to put yourself on the line, and I have never taken myself too seriously.

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.

A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

I sincerely hope, that you will grow up to be both a hero and a magician - brave and clever, though there's excellent grounds for saying the two qualities are mutually exclusive. But what the hell.

His voice wore no pants.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

to perform without a net is ecstasy. Papa Phom had often reminded her, To perform without focus is fatal.

Remember: no hand is a winning hand 'til you dare to lay it down. - Wild Card

The fetus bailed out without a parachute.

a novel that does its own stunts

Yours was the courage to live life in and from its belly as well as beyond its edges.

Jumping from the roof of Mercy was the most interesting thing he had done.

If I had a talent I could claim, it would be as a finder of trouble. Which is undoubtedly what I'd find by sticking my nose where it had no right to be. But would I let a thought of trouble stop me? Not a snowflake's chance in hell.

Piracy is a lot of fun; you should try it.

One can dare a lot if one is Emeritus

If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.

Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made.