Quotes About Daring

Can you believe him? I think the boy has lost his goddamn mind. Who the fuck plays tug with a crocodile?

Okay," I said, clasping her hand. "I swear it. The next time I do something stupid that might get me killed, you can come along.

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

Oh yea FORTUNATELY the girls are a lot braver then the guys, they flirt all the time.

It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

Time for some thrillin' heroics.

Life is fraught with risks

There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.

Sometimes courage is nothing more than a willingness to think differently than those around you. In a culture of conformity, that's braver than it sounds.

This book is a tribute to the men and women who dared. Who, to this day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and prudery. Their lives are not easy. But their cocktail parties are the best. p

Seriously hairy shit was going down on a regular basis.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

I'm the last of the mad ones.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

I gotta say, boss," he told me, "that was some real gangster shit back there.

When one's time approached, how much better to go out in a blaze of glorious lunacy, on a gnu, than to dribble one's life away in a rocking chair. Alexander

Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games.

He and Sully dared each other to go on the Wild Mouse and finally went together, howling deliriously as their car plunged into each dip, simultaneously sure that they were going to live forever and die immediately.

FAR BETTER IT IS TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS, TO WIN GLORIOUS TRIUMPHS, EVEN THOUGH CHECKERED BY FAILURE, THAN TO TAKE RANK WITH THOSE POOR SPIRITS WHO NEITHER ENJOY NOR SUFFER TOO MUCH, BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN THE GRAY TWILIGHT THAT KNOWS NOT VICTORY NOR DEFEAT." —Theodore Roosevelt, in his speech "The Strenuous Life, A Speech before the Hamilton Club," Chicago, April 10, 1899

you don't need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice.

But heroes, at time, had to be fools