Quotes About Daring

She thinks I'm too...impulsive." "Can't imagine why," Tristan muttered, "when you do things like ride off into the woods after gentlemen in pursuit of a thief---

When you have nothing to lose, you have the freedom to thumb your nose at the rules set by others.

If we are going to die anyway...why be cautious? Why not risk all now, at this moment, in this adventure?

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Can't play it safe, can't play at all any more

Here is what I'd like to tell. I'd like to tell a story about how Moira escaped, for good this time. Or if I couldn't tell that, I'd like to say she blew up Jezebel's, with fifty Commanders inside it. I'd like her to end with something daring and spectacular, some outrage, something that would befit her. But as far as I know that didn't happen. I don't know how she ended, or even if she did, because I never saw her again.

It's better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

Queens can, too, fly," she blurted out, daring him. His grin broadening to suffuse his face, he put his hands on her shoulders and gave her an affectionate shake. "Of course they can fly," he assured her, his voice full of pride and respect. "That's why they have wings!

Stella seems the most carefree, the most flamboyant, the most daring, and the only Mayfair Witch ever bent entirely upon "having fun.

And there is another kind of strength in you. A daring, and a hunger, and aloneness. And that hunger and aloneness I know, and I kiss with the lips I do not have; I hold with the arms I do not have; I press to the heart in me that isn't there to beat with warmth.

You dared to publish a chronicle using the name Merrick Mayfair. You dared to do this even though a great family by the name of Mayfair lives in this city and its environs to this day. You had no care when you did that.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

You can get an erection less than an hour after I've tried to kill you? she said in disbelief. Just how perverse are you? Let me show you.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

A Timid Trapeze Artist Is a Dead Trapeze Artist

repeat itself; it can't. But the creative journey still follows a pattern. It's a practice of growth and connection, of service and daring. It's also a practice of selflessness and ego in an endless dance.

Come closer and let me demonstrate." When she hesitates, I grin her way. "I dare you.

he "rules" with a kind of Gaullist grandeur, testing the constitutional limits of office, while pursuing a politics of "daring, sacrifice," and "nobility."30 Above all, ideally the executive stands not for programs but for "virtue." That means, among other things, he is prepared to act in defiance of the popular will.

Look at her. She looks so harmless and meek, but inside she's a lion. Tory is an adrenaline junkie the likes of which you've probably never seen…everything from deep-sea diving to base jumping. Hell, she even jumps out of perfectly good airplanes for fun. (Pam)