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.
