Daring Quotes

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

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.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

The loving are the daring.

All serious daring starts from within.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.

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.

We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.