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Quotes About Daring

When at last he could lift his head, he asked, "What have you done?" "What have I done?" She lifted a mocking brow. "Why, I've kidnapped the marquees of Northcliff." "You dare to admit it?" Inch by painful inch, he dragged himself onto the cot. "Admitting to it is the least of my sins. I did it.
~ Christina Dodd
He looks at me. She lifted her chin belligerently, silently daring MaryAnn to laugh. If MaryAnn's eyebrow could have risen any higher it would have reached her hairline. Her mouth twitched, and she hastily bit the end of her pen. Oh, my. The bastard.
~ Christine Feehan
Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.
~ Christopher Paolini
Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, BAH! just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway...
~ Christopher Paolini
If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it.
~ Christopher Paolini
It was a frantic, ugly dance, but a dance all the same, and despite its ugliness, filled with moments of grace and daring.
~ Christopher Paolini
One part brave, three parts fool.
~ Christopher Paolini
Mieux vaut mourir en plein vol que de périr écrasé au sol
~ Christopher Paolini
Do I dare. Disturb the universe?
~ TS Eliot
The plane was tiny; it had to be, because, as the pilot said, it must be able to come down on a half dollar. It flew as low as possible in order to escape detection by enemy radar. To be sure, that made a danger of church steeples and tall trees in the darkness; but then, as Frederick the Great had said to his troops, "Do you want to live forever?
~ Upton Sinclair
Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her
~ Victor Hugo
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
~ Victor Hugo
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
~ Victor Hugo
To dare; that is the price of progress.
~ Victor Hugo
Toutes les conquêtes sublimes sont plus ou moins des prix de hardiesse. Pour que la révolution soit, il ne suffit pas que Montesquieu la pressente, que Diderot la prêche, que Beaumarchais l'annonce, que Condorcet la calcule, qu'Arouet la prépare, que Rousseau la prémédite ; il faut que Danton l'ose.
~ Victor Hugo
They upheld everything till the day when they overthrew everything. Their instinct was to give a decisive push to everything that tottered. In their eyes, as they had been brought into service on condition that there should be solidity, to waver was to betray them. They were numbers, they were force, they were fear. Hence the daring of baseness.
~ Victor Hugo
Sometimes you have to do everything right and follow the rules. You have to wait until all your ducks are in a row before you make a move. And other times... like now... you have to say 'what the hell' and go for it.
~ Kristin Hannah
Isabelle had always been impetuous, a force of nature, really, a girl who liked to break rules. Countless nuns and teachers had learned that she could be neither controlled nor contained.
~ Kristin Hannah
We must never forget these remarkable women and the daring, dangerous choices they made to save others
~ Kristin Hannah
it's better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you'll fly before you fall
~ Kristin Hannah
Be brave, into her ear. And then, Or pretend to be. It's all the same.
~ Kristin Hannah
if you jump off a cliff at least you'll fly before you fall.
~ Kristin Hannah
Tante Isabelle says it's better to be bold than meek. She says if you jump off a cliff at least you'll fly before you fall.
~ Kristin Hannah
Perhaps I am as mad and impetuous as they say.
~ Kristin Hannah