Top 250 Dare Quotes

If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.

They don’t always use dwarfs, unfortunately. They shouldn’t be allowed to do that! How dare they do ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and not have dwarfs!

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

I generally only eat one meal a day, which is pretty unusual for a restaurant reviewer. It’s not that I have a problem with food; I’ll eat anything that doesn’t involve a bet, a dare, or an initiation ceremony.

All the Formula 1 teams that Dare To Be Different has come into contact with – Ferrari, McLaren, Force India, Williams – they’re all very proactive in supporting us. They allow us to contact their female staff members and they’re very conscious of wanting to help increase their percentage of women in the industry.

Alone of prejudices, anti-Zionism is sacrosanct. How very dare we distinguish the motivation of one sort from another? Or question, in any instance, an anti-Zionist’s good faith? In fact, what determines whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic is the nature of it.

I dare anybody to look at me and say I’m anorexic. I’m so totally not.

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude – I dare you to entertain me.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I’ll miss the present.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Being in an industry where money talks, everybody involved in the ‘Dare To Dream’ project came to a conclusion to sign it to Interscope.

Many years ago, I was a young and, dare I say it, very hot new comedian. Maybe even the hottest of all if the now defunct Perrier panel of judges were to be believed.

Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life – dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

Want to fire up a liberal? Dare to suggest that a nervous looking young Middle Eastern man standing in a TSA line to get on an airplane should be scrutinized.

Art means to dare – and to have been right.

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

Often, when a girl has a crush on a boy, her friend will dare her to speak to him or ask for a pencil, or better yet, let him know that she has a crush. Pretty risky stuff… It happens thousands of times a day in the lives of teenagers everywhere. Putting yourself out there. Daring to expose your true feelings.

Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.

I dare anybody to display a more amazing body of work than Tom Petty.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

We have to stop this stereotype that for girls it’s about being in pink and horse riding. We need to teach kids to think outside the box, to dare girls to be different.

Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn’t dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It’s like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

Everyone’s got issues. There’s a stigma in football that you earn a certain amount of money, how dare you have issues.

When people come up to me and say, ‘I read your book,’ I’m thinking, ‘How dare you! Who gave you a copy?’

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you’re working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

I sometimes can’t be bothered, dare I say, to spend a copious amount of time on my hair and my face before I go out into the public eye.

Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things – but above all we must dare to fail.

If an executive producer has written a certain line, and an actress says it, and it’s not very funny, you don’t dare go to them and say, ‘I don’t like this,’ because it will make your life miserable.

I read ‘Pushing the Limit’ and ‘Dare You To’ by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now I’m a believer.

In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn’t look like a happy existence – it’s just not who I am.

I don’t dare to think my paintings are great. I can’t understand the arrogance of someone saying, ‘I have created a big, important work.’

If a brand will shy away from you because you dare to say that black lives matter, that’s probably not a brand you want to work with anyway.

I dare you to show me one example where I haven’t discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately.

I’ve had people say to me, ‘How dare you have a Twitter,’ you know, with my gimmick, I guess, and I just say, ‘It’s 2017.’ It’d be hard to find someone in America who doesn’t have a phone that has Twitter capabilities. So as a WWE Superstar, I think it’s OK that I have a Twitter, people.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

The curious thing is Americans don’t mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that’s the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.

I know more about what it’s like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I’m a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word ‘wisdom’ has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I’m a little wiser.

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on?

There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

I was given an eight-foot painting on a luminous yellow background as a parting gift when leaving Paris in 2008. I did not dare take it with me to N.Y.C. and understood that the cost of shipping would have far outweighed the cost of the work.

Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.

When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, ‘How dare you…’ it’s a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.

Honestly, without art and dance, I think I would be a very safe, black-and-white thinker. I wouldn’t dare to take any risks or see so much of the world in myself and other people!

Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you’re acting. You have to be in the moment and dare to fly. Words can’t be on your mind.

What’s very funny is when you see amateurs filming something, they do some things no professionals would dare to do. They instinctively do things that are very avant-garde and useful.

You can’t keep treating people differently under the law because of their differences. That’s not America. I dare say that’s not even a good conservative value. We’re all supposed to have an equal shot.

Only when a man’s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government’s purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I’m going to take the country in an opposite direction than he’s taking it.

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it – the audacity of hope.

Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of.

Well, I think when one has got beliefs and expresses and communicates them then one also radiates some kind of freedom that some people might not dare having.

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

I don’t mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things – read the trades, know what’s going on in the town. I call it ‘dare to be stupid.’ The worst thing they can say is, ‘We got nothing for you.’ So I’ve hustled a lot.

You have to appreciate the finer points of your work; criticise, too, if needed. I am also my own worst and most honest critic. I can say things which nobody will ever dare say. Even the best of friends will stop at a point, whereas I can go beyond.

Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

We have a wider political and economic system in which ancient, landed power still carries immense weight. There is nothing some landowners would like more than to set the police on those who dare to venture into their vast estates.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

I wouldn’t dare compare myself to Buffon, not as a man and not as a keeper.

We must dare to think ‘unthinkable’ thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from ‘Sesame Street’ wasn’t enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people’s couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn’t dare ask, though.

By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life – we’ve grown weary and apathetic and jaded… and wounded.

ABC’s intelligently hilarious sitcom ‘Modern Family’ depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers dare to make them flawed and thus fully delineated, but they’re not flawed in the silly, stereotypical ways that once dominated such portrayals.

If we Argentines dare to unite, we will be unstoppable.

I would never ever dare to objectify anyone who has fed me, protected me or loved me.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don’t know that they can be recognised as marriage.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

I feel that’s what a real champion needs to be doing, dare to take on the best fights possible.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.

Volvo is like a mysterious, beautiful woman. We just look at her from far away, amazed. We don’t dare get close to her. We’re just a bunch of farm boys.

I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.

It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don’t think the movie would work otherwise.

My colleagues made me play Truth & Dare & gave me a task that I have to stay in a room for 3 days. The room will be locked, there will be cameras all around & it’s gonna be live.

I wouldn’t even dare to sing like Ed Sheeran.

Let’s dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

Nobody would dare to show Rajini sir in bad light through a film.

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays… a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don’t believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.

I just feel like my audience is interested in anything that I do. Dare I say, even when I was making my science experiment videos, they lived for that.

People are racist about redheads in a way they’d never dare to be about black or Asian people.

I think we have great personalities in tennis, but I think they don’t dare anymore expressing their emotions and expressing who they are. It’s all about being politically correct all the time.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That’s a terrifying situation. That’s contrary to the principles of science.

I was such a big ‘Dirty Dozen,’ ‘Where Eagles Dare,’ ‘A Bridge Too Far’ – all those kinds of movies I loved.

I dare say that if most comedians today, the gifted ones, were to sit down and write, they’d learn more about their craft. But what happens is they get out there before they learn what their viewpoint is, if any.

Don’t hold on to the past; it won’t help in moving forward. Dare to dream big.

Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.

I’m very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room. It never quite loses its thing.

I love unusual games, games that dare to be different and that are not based on violent actions.

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O’Connor, James Agee, and – do we dare breathe the name – William Faulkner.

I don’t know what it is in me that refuses to quit, but I think it’s kind of like, dare to dream.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

‘Sweet Valley High’ is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and – dare I say it – cinematic.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn’t write a good poem… And then it actually wasn’t so bad.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

I am a woman. I think I have the spirit, the intelligence, and – dare I say – the soul of a woman.

You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.

I’ve been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When ‘American Buffalo’ came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, ‘How dare he use that kind of language!’ Of course I’m alienating the public! That’s what they pay me for.

James O’Keefe is a journalist, doing the work ‘real’ journalists don’t dare, and has been conducting undercover investigations for years with dozens of scalps collected along the way. The more the ‘true’ journalists who back the Democrat machine attack him, the more emboldened he becomes to pursue his next project.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

We must speak up for those who do not dare to speak, those who are not allowed to, and those who cannot.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

Clothes are only completed when somebody actually wears them. If they were art, they could be more abstract. As long as something is new and has never been seen before, I don’t mind if people call it art. Wear them if you dare.

What Must-See T.V. was all about was one network, one night, for one decade. And a third of the country would come and watch Must-See T.V. And you didn’t dare go to work the next day, because if you hadn’t watched, you would be left out of the conversation, that water-cooler conversation.

Clearly independent journalists – domestic journalists – run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

One person, one vote sounds so reasonable and – dare I say it – democratic. But the voting process in America is anything but fair and balanced.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

My fans are incredible. Don’t you dare talk bad about me on my Instagram, because my fans will come out, and they will eat you alive.

I remember the first horror movie I saw – I was five years old; it was a direct-to-video movie called ‘Truth or Dare: a Critical Madness,’ which is sort of badly fantastic or fantastically bad. And then ‘Gremlins’ was an early movie that I saw, and ‘Nightmare on Elm Street 3.’

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain’s gale-force waters.

What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

New York is still the most glamorous city I’ve ever been to, but it’s starting to feel older. The sirens still wail; the paths in Central Park still pulsate with joggers. The Manhattan schist still trembles beneath your feet. But weirdly, it’s starting to feel, dare I say it, a bit quaint.

‘The Twilight Zone’ was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

For sure, the ‘Obamania’ that’s fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.

One of the whole reasons for starting my initiative, Dare to be Different, is about getting more girls interested in motorsport and that’s everywhere, not just driving on track but creating a network where they have the support around them.

If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill – no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

Who’s not played spin the bottle? But I never done the kiss version. I always wanted to, but I never did. We did the truth or dare one instead.

No one can dare cast an evil eye on India.

The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

A time would come when nobody in the State would dare antagonise the BJP if they were to conduct politics in Tamil Nadu.

We have to dare to modernize to get room to maneuver for the priorities in the future.

I ask myself questions that journalists don’t dare to ask or don’t know how to ask.

Steven, my friend who came out to me my senior year, was a huge Madonna fan. So I may know all the words to ‘Bedtime Stories,’ ‘Erotica,’ and a few more of her albums – and we may have watched ‘Truth or Dare’ a thousand times.

Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern – or, dare we say, post-modern – family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, ‘The Kids Are All Right.’

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won’t say to my face.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

I’ve just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

People with a lot of money aren’t in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers’ wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it’s worth the money.

The way Ederson plays is so brave. To dare to play like that is bravery and it also enables City to play with a much higher press. They are able to really press because they know any ball in behind he will sweep up.

Talking about weight at all – even your own – has become increasingly tricky, especially if you dare to say that you would quite like to lose a few pounds.

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

I’m doing modeling to stay alive. I don’t enjoy my work. I don’t find it creative. You don’t need brains, and there are no heavy qualifications. All it takes is not to be shy and to dare to make a fool of yourself. But I shouldn’t complain, because I am privileged enough to be overpaid.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

When you dare me to do something, I will say, ‘Watch me’. That is what I say to critics. ‘Watch me’.

Theater isn’t there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that’s what matters in the theater I’m attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

I was so involved in the regular joy of school that I didn’t do any plays. On a dare, I auditioned for ‘South Pacific’ my junior year. I showed up at the last minute to the audition and ended up getting cast as the lead. I haven’t turned back since then.

I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn’t have their father’s support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don’t come up with on my own.

Trolling can be a great way to engage with the world, a way to regain self-esteem and happiness, or, dare I say it, a way of life.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, ‘We don’t offer bribes’, or companies that operate only by market rules.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

When I first started, it was a dare. Someone basically said, ‘You’re a tough guy… but I’ll bet you won’t get on a microphone in front of a bunch of people.’ I was terrified, but I did it. Once I broke the ice and got onstage and got some laughs, I thought, ‘That’s not so bad.’

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that’s the only way we grow.

The mere existence of ‘Buffy’ proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different – to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices.

As I’ve grown – dare I say it – older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

I don’t have any hidden talents but if you dare me to do something I’ll go after it big time.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

In the end I got a major newspaper in South East Asia to buy a whistleblower’s account for a ludicrous bunch of money. Off I toddled, published the story, which the newspaper didn’t dare do in the end and then of course I was unleashed into a rollercoaster of denial and backlash.

I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich. But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money. And too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn’t always say – you wouldn’t dare say it was beautiful.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: ‘Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

True Dare Kiss’ is a gothic drama about a highly dysfunctional Mancunian family who, after 20 years, reconvene for the funeral of their father. I wanted to play Phil because I really liked the character, and there is an element of mystery about her – which I can’t reveal.

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all… Dare I say it? Pessimistic.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

It would almost seem that – dare I say this – private transportation is more efficient than mass public-transit!

We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.

When ‘Dare Me’ was first in development, it was hard to make the case for why it’d be interesting to anybody other than teenage girls. It’d often be treated, like, on first glance, ‘What is this? ‘Pretty Little Liars?’ ‘Mean Girls?” It never was that.

They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I’m still vulgar. I’m vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I’ve got to do something.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

I think when you are dealing with Brock Lesnar, you have to show up ready to deal with Brock Lesnar. Brock is the type of guy who is not going to give you an inch. If you are going to get anything from him, you have to take it, and he’s going to dare you to take it.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don’t dare walk.

There’s obviously a sense of responsibility that comes with having this following and having fans, and so there’s a lot of stuff that I won’t dare to post, just because I want to be a good influence.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from – dare I say it – God.

I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I’m a singer.

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

In America… it’s not divided, but with Trump now, it’s like you are asking for trouble. We wouldn’t dare to say any of the things he is saying in our country and get away with it. It’s just… blasphemy.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things – but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

My mantra is, ‘Dare to be…’ I leave it open-ended, because depending on the mood, the weather, the day, you might need a different power word. Having a power word can help steer you in the right direction, especially when things aren’t going your way.

‘Dare to Discipline’ was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

Ekta Kapoor, the producer of ‘Kaahin… ‘ once told me that you’ve got to keep breaking the mould to keep yourself in the game. Hence, I dare to do something different. For instance, after years of essaying flamboyantly dressed negative roles, I took on one of a demure singer in Zee TV’s ‘Sanjog Se Bani Sangini.’

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Who uses funds more productively – private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffett can use his surplus funds more effectively in private business and creating jobs than the government can.

I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.

You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.

When we dare to hope for a certain outcome and take action after action toward that outcome, we’re dealing with nothing less than the spirit of creativity itself.

But sometimes it’s good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

People love my voice because they say I say what they were thinking but dare not to say because they had a filter or a job.

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it’s like, everything that I don’t really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, ‘Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?’ I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

If I get a hangnail, I don’t dare complain! Life is good. I wake up humming.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.

Those who can bear all can dare all.

Being a conservative union member is almost like being an actor in Hollywood: You don’t dare say it, or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I’m interested in knowing. They’re so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I’d done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

I dare to do things – that’s how I survive.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.