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Quotes About Dared

It was as if there were an unspoken agreement on the mountain to pretend that these desiccated remains weren't real—as if none of us dared to acknowledge what was at stake here.
~ Jon Krakauer
I was a chemical engineer in school. And, randomly, an ex-girlfriend dared me to do a play.
~ Ato Essandoh
We were restored, in the first place, because other nations dared to make a revolution, and, in the second place, because other nations suffered a counter revolution: in the first place, because our masters were afraid, and, in the second place, because they regained their courage.
~ Karl Marx
That they dared make a town of this wet and sucking thing that vied with my foot for my boot at every step bespoke the glorious and yearning bullshit of men's souls.
~ Matthew Sharpe
No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.
~ Ken Kesey
Rage simmered in the pit of my stomach—rage that my deadbeat of a father would have dared to talk to the press, rage that someone had taped this article to the back of my locker door.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before Stare vacant into mine And ask my business there.
~ Emily Dickinson
What a wonderful little girl.' Nor was His Highness displeased at what I had dared to do, for he, too, shook my hand warmly when
~ Robert A. Carter
When he dozed during an emergency meeting, nobody dared disturb the royal snooze.
~ Ron Chernow
You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of women, they do not understand women, they write about women as creatures that never existed
~ Dylan Thomas
But just the same, she dared not allow her mind to look up, for she sensed that the tattered images of her dreams were still hung high on the masts of her consciousness like the ragged remainders of sails flapping after a storm.
~ Edward Docx
And this is   the origin of freewill, that Adam wished to be independent, [124] and   dared to try what he was able to do.
~ John Calvin
I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.
~ Shirley Chisholm
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
~ John Thorn
It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming. I was comfortable, and you dared to move, those jade eyes said. For that you must die.
~ Scott Lynch
That they dared make a town of this wet and sucking thing that vied with my foot for my boot at every step bespoke the glorious and yearning bullshit of men's souls.
~ Matthew Sharpe
he knew he dared not sleep, not even doze, or he would lose track of his mission and time itself. He
~ Jory Sherman
the totalitarian hell proves only that the power of man is greater than they ever dared to think, and that man can realize hellish fantasies without making the sky fall or the earth open.
~ Hannah Arendt
An insane idea begged to recognition in my head, one that I hardly dared to consider.
~ Storm Constantine
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
~ Tacitus
Who dared to do this?" he demanded. "Vampire hunters who have fallen, ironically enough, in league with a vampire," Gregori answered.
~ Christine Feehan
would I have known that mystery leaves a space for us when certainty does not? And would I have dared to challenge rules later in life if my father had obeyed them?
~ Gloria Steinem
No one in Portugal dared to admit the actual reason for Magellan's behavior
~ Laurence Bergreen
Dreams were so tiring that she wondered how anybody ever dared to go to sleep at night.
~ Jeanette Winterson