Quotes About Daring

Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.

Once he inserted a bodkin – a long needle of the sort used for sewing leather – into his eye socket and rubbed it around 'betwixt my eye and the bone4 as near to [the] backside of my eye as I could' just to see what would happen. What happened, miraculously, was nothing – at least, nothing lasting.

Nothing—really, absolutely nothing—says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.

I looked up—a sheer, flat, white rocky face (the kind you would take a ski lift to reach the top of or wear a parachute to jump from)—and thought: Oh, shit.

Be bold if you are going to make an error make a doozy.

The sinners are much more fun.

Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there

It has always been my nature to take chances My right-hand drawing while my left-hand advances Bob Dylan

Be daring, be daring, always be daring. There is no big dream unless you dream big.

Not the bravest. Or the most daring. In Dr. Moorcraft's words, the greatest secret of the Plankholders was simply that, to the best of the army's assessment, they were the ones who cared about no one but themselves.

We want no proofs. We ask none to believe us! This boy will some day know what a brave and gallant woman his mother is. Already he knows her sweetness and loving care. Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake." Excerpt From: Stoker, Bram. "Dracula." iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright. Check out this book on the iBookstore: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/M...

Who was it that said a magician needs the subtlety of a Jesuit, the daring of a soldier and the wits of a thief? I believe it was meant for a insult, but it has some truth in it.

For contemporary readers who look back on the fifties as simply being cool, it may be difficult to see how daring Plath really was. In the clutches of postwar conformity and rampant conservatism

The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract ...

La moraleja es simple: échate al ruedo. Nunca sabes por dónde saldrá el toro.

What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract. by this, and only this, we have existed.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. (It's not the main point of the poem, but I am the third generation of my family who's never been able to eat a peach without wondering, do I dare and do I dare)

Anything is possible, but many things are highly unlikely. Only those who will risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.

No existe lo que se llama falta de temor, Simón, a menos que un hombre esté loco. Doctor Morgenes

Los valientes y los locos a menudo viven en la misma cueva, decimos nosotros. Binabik

Stefan shook his head. Th' lad's got guts , he thought. Not much sense, but guts.

doing good required taking risks.

against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted – up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness. CRRRAAAASSSSSSH! Down the cliff the Iron Man came toppling, head over heels. CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! From rock to rock, snag to snag, tumbling slowly.