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And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done. -- Christopher Smart
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. -- Homer
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. -- Bernadette Devlin
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for. -- Terence
For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.' -- Rand Paul
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. -- Robert Frost
I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language. -- Marc Anthony
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -- Bruce Barton
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. -- Henry Miller
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. -- Edgar Allan Poe
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still. -- Maya Angelou
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. -- Havelock Ellis
If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult. -- Hulk Hogan
I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have. -- Loretta Lynn
I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering. -- Ato Essandoh
The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling. -- Vivienne Westwood
If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didn't just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on. -- Justin Rosenstein
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. -- Emma Goldman
It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. -- Joan Didion
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. -- Jean Cocteau
I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear? -- Joyce Maynard
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. -- Johnny Depp
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule. -- Joanne Harris
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. -- Salma Hayek
The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook. -- Henry Rollins
At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever. -- Kendrick Lamar
Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. -- Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
Before me no one would have dared dress in black -- Coco Chanel
Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for! -- Jeff Belanger
Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter. -- Meister Eckhart
Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing. -- Olaf Stapledon
In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat. -- Douglas Adams
The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas. -- Gioconda Belli
Solace of Silencesurreal synapsesof a melancholy dronea dream per chanceshe dared not be alone... -- Muse
His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him. -- Kenneth Oppel
But I didn't dare. That has always been my trouble. I've never dared enough. -- Michael Morpurgo
I wanted to take your hand into mine and kiss it.I never dared. -- Julio Alexi Genao
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all. -- Tacitus
Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! -- Bill Brandt
How could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I respect anyone who achieves something that countless others have dared to try before and failed. -- Keiynan Lonsdale
The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it. -- Robert Brustein
How could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write~? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared. -- Bert Hellinger
We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together. -- Georgette Leblanc
I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. -- Maya Angelou
You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared. -- Sarah J. Maas
My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball. -- Ian Woosnam
We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Dessalines
I liked this girl in my sixth grade class. I dared her to kiss me -- but she didn't! -- Justin Bieber
I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools. -- Elsie de Wolfe
Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally. -- Stephanie Dowrick
I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell. -- George R. R. Martin
You gave me the courage to love. To dared to dream for things I never imagined were possible for me. -- D.C. Akers
Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope. -- Jack Miller
You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That's what scares you most. -- Sarah J. Maas
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms -- Aristotle
If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed." -- Barbara Boxer
I don't think I would've ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn't set myself up for that disappointment. -- David Rees
There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars. -- Rivera Sun
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. -- Bruce Barton
I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it. -- Karen Joy Fowler
I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn't going to hold him back. -- Rick Riordan
It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before. -- Claude Monet
he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips"¦her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop. -- Winston Churchill
It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough. -- R.L. LaFevers
We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey. -- John Huston
The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope. -- Timothy Keller
You win even if you lose. You will be celebrated to have dared to confront those terrible odds instead of crossing your arms against danger. -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist. -- Emile Zola
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. -- Jane Austen
An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any. -- John Lyly
I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope. -- Alistair Begg
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife -- Aldous Huxley
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged. -- Douglas Adams
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off. -- George Bernard Shaw
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still. -- Maya Angelou
I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names! -- Otto von Bismarck
Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think. -- Timothy Keller
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. -- Aldous Huxley
Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause. -- Matthew Simpson
I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do. -- Lewis Carroll
Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast. -- Ted Hughes
You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess! -- Tamera Mowry
[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf. -- Carol Mann
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naÃ¯ve in a way. -- Agnes Varda
There is no more fulfilling experience in all the world than the sense that God's Spirit has taken you and dared to use you for His glory. -- Dennis F. Kinlaw
Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day. -- Marion Cotillard
It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present. -- Marion Woodman
God doesn't give us just enough. God gives us more than enough: more bread and fish than we can eat, more love than we dared to ask for. -- Henri Nouwen
She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it. -- Jeanette Winterson
I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything. -- Abraham Lincoln
I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits -- Paulo Coelho
Have you dared to eat my son?" I laughed. Actually, it started out as more of a giggle that grew. Because my mind went straight to the gutter. -- Jennifer Rardin
I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets. -- Ashly Lorenzana
I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it. -- Harry Shum, Jr.
Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives. -- Isadora Duncan
Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood." -- Charles Henry Mackintosh
You don't know about real loss because it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. -- Sean Maguire
Ruexner will pay dearly for this," Valten promised, speaking to no one in particular, but imagining he had the fiend's neck between his hands. If he dared hurt Gisela... -- Melanie Dickerson
Mary Magdalene beat her breast and sobbed, The beloved disciple turned to stone, But where the silent Mother stood, there No one glanced and no one would have dared. -- Anna Akhmatova
If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life. -- Ray Bradbury
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel. -- Ethan A. Hitchcock
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Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago? -- Horst Koehler
Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them. -- Holly Lisle
Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago? -- Horst Koehler
We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks. -- Barack Obama
Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas. -- Maya Angelou
He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him. And he would never let her go...even if she begged for her freedom. -- Nalini Singh
It was, she had to admit, some kind of wonderful to be kissed so deliciously by the only mand who had dared play with her cat with the intention of winning. -- Nalini Singh
Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden. -- Kristin Cashore
It was, she had to admit, some kind of wonderful to be kissed so deliciously by the only man who had dared play with her cat with the intention of winning. -- Nalini Singh
every move of his body sent ripples along those lean muscles. his flawless crystal skin practically dared people to see ifit felt as good as it loked - which it did. -- Jeaniene Frost
One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . -- George Leigh Mallory
Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite. -- Joanne Harris

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