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Quotes About Audacity

I dare because I must. Who will dare for me, if I dare not dare for myself?
~ Sharon Lee
Whatever had he meant by it? And how dare he mean anything!
~ Mary Balogh
Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
~ Barack Obama
The audacity of hope! I still remember my grandmother, singing in the house, 'There's a bright side somewhere Ã¢â'¬Â¦ don't rest till you find it Ã¢â'¬Â¦.'" "That's right!" "The audacity of hope!
~ Barack Obama
I gotta say, boss," he told me, "that was some real gangster shit back there.
~ Barack Obama
And yet consider once again the painting before us. Hope! Like Hannah, that harpist is looking upwards, a few faint notes floating upwards towards the heavens. She dares to hope Ã¢â'¬Â¦. She has the audacity Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to make music Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and praise God Ã¢â'¬Â¦ on the one string Ã¢â'¬Â¦ she has left!
~ Barack Obama
life, going straight up the middle is the boldest move
~ Steven D. Levitt
Sometimes in life, going straight up the middle is the boldest move of all.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Dona Flor ia perdendo a timidez, entregando-se àquela festa lasciva, crescendo em violência, tornando-se amante animosa e audaz. Nunca, porém, abandonou por completo a pudicícia e a vergonha; era necessário reconquistá-la cada vez, pois, apenas desperta dessas loucas audácias e dos ais de desmaio, voltava a ser tímida e pudorosa esposa.
~ Jorge Amado
No eran valientes porque si triunfaban se transformarían en el germen del ejército emancipador de América, ni porque estaban dispuestos a darlo todo por la patria nueva. Eran valientes, en ese debut sangriento, porque temían más a su jefe que a Dios, y porque al no poder retroceder hasta el más cobarde es un hombre audaz.
~ Jorge Fernández Díaz
O característico do momento é que a alma vulgar, sabendo-se vulgar, tem a audácia de afirmar o direito à vulgaridade e o impõe em toda parte.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
~ Joseph Conrad
I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Ignorance makes you very bold.
~ Sergio Ramos
Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all kinds of malice and violence and ill will. It's been that way since black people were brought to this country.
~ Justin Simien
Your greatest fault," Eisenhower tells Patton, "is your audacity.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Audacity, audacity, always audacity"—a motto that works well on the field of battle, but not so well in diplomatic situations.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy.
~ Billie Jean King
The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.
~ Gregg Allman
Audaces fortuna juvat [« La fortune sourit aux audacieux »].
~ Gustave Flaubert
Además, para triunfar siempre en la vida no hace falta más que mucho tupé.
~ Gustave Flaubert
De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace ! »
~ Gustave Flaubert
Apropos of sleep, that sinister adventure of all our nights, we may say that men go to bed daily with an audacity that would be incomprehensible if we did not know that it is the result of ignorance of the danger. -Baudelairei
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Harry leaned forward. "You put your penis on the page.
~ Hanif Kureishi