Daring Quotes - page 8

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well. (Carrie Brownstein)
My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent. View quote
Ed Helms
A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now. View quote
Jane Campion
Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.' View quote
Jane McGonigal
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace. View quote
John Boyle O'Reilly
London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting. View quote
John Legend
Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it. View quote
Joseph Howe
When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think. View quote
Julius Erving
Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability. View quote
Claron McFadden
My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way. View quote
Colman Domingo
I love to experiment with fashion. A lot of my inspiration comes from my mom. She is fearless with fashion! I love colors and anything daring. (Neon Hitch)
But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working. View quote
Robert Klein
Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects. View quote
Toni Servillo
For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that. View quote
Taylor Schilling
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all. View quote
Germaine Greer
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel. View quote
Charles Churchill (satirist)
I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful. View quote
André Leon Talley
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. View quote
William Hazlitt
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution such call I good books. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence. (Polybius)
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude... View quote
George Eliot
... we sometimes find that such heresies have been the foundation for bold and necessary change, but heresy is usually just crazy. Most daring new ideas are foolish or dangerous and appropriately rejected or ignored. So while it may be true that great geniuses are usually heretics, heretics are rarely great geniuses. View quote
James G. March
Jove almighty, nod assent to the daring work I have in hand! View quote
Virgil
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue? View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson