Top 100 Dare Not Quotes
#1. I'm not saying he's stingy. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's from a generation that never expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare to climb higher.
Marlon James
#2. I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!
Eric Thomas
#3. Dare only to believe in yourselves- in yourselves and in your inward parts! He who does not believe in himself always lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. Your breasts are alabaster orbs.' "What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that."
"Do you have some better suggestion?"
"Why can't you just say she's got a fair set of titties?
Tessa Dare
#5. You can trust my word," Everet said. "No one will raise a hand to punish you while you belong to me. Not me, not anyone else.
Kim Dare
#6. One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
Vladimir Lenin
#7. Devilish men should not be allowed to hold kittens, babies, or bouquets of wildflowers. There ought to be an Act of Parliament.
Tessa Dare
#8. My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.
Allan Dare Pearce
#9. Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho. But you never read novels, I dare say?" "Why not?" "Because they are not clever enough for you - gentlemen read better books.
Jane Austen
#10. The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there's a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if this image is seen by you, you'll dare not divulge it to others, for others must pay a price
Michael Bassey Johnson
#11. We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. The American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.
Margaret Halsey
#14. So it was with court jesters in the Middle Ages; they could alert the king to dangers that the ministers would not dare to comment on because they were afraid of losing their positions.
Paulo Coelho
#15. The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it ... mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.
William Shakespeare
#17. But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.
Donna Tartt
#18. These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us.
Joyce Carol Oates
#19. suicide is committed by some one brave. A coward do not even dare to think about it and hide himself behind the wall of what we know as life.
Aimi
#20. I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.
Francine Mathews
#21. There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#22. The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.
Lisa Morgan
#23. You're a powerful man,' she went on. 'And it's not only to do with your money or your title. You have the ability to make people feel valued, when you're not making them feel like rubbish.
Tessa Dare
#24. You dare quarrel with me Doerwyne?
She wrinkled her nose. "It's not quarreling to express an opinion'"
"Women don't have opinions."
"Then I must be a man, because I have plenty.
Georgia Fox
#25. Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.
William Wilberforce
#26. This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#28. If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?
Richard Hamming
#29. "That is a breathtaking display, luv. But dare not mistake my veneration for surrender."
He starts toward me, his expression fading to a scowl.
A.G. Howard
#30. Good days are such a mysterious gift that you dare not question them much, and the only problem is they give you a false sense of security.
Paul Monette
#31. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#32. Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
John Masefield
#33. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca.
#34. I wanted to find out then and quickly whether I was a louse like everybody else or a man. Whether I can step over barriers or not, whether I dare stoop to pick up or not, whether I am a trembling creature or whether I have the right...F
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#35. We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#36. Look at him. The man's not delusional. He's in love.
Tessa Dare
#37. Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime (I might almost call it a course of action) which I can neither understand nor excuse. I dare say I need not particularise.
Evelyn Waugh
#38. The most successful are not the most perfect, but the imperfect who dare to believe that they can despite the damning verdict.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#39. Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.
Ben Harper
#40. Simply put, here amid the kingdoms of this world we have no continuing city. That's why we dare not become attached to the passing values of any human culture.
Harold L. Senkbeil
#41. We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
Thomas Browne
#42. the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.
George R R Martin
#43. The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.
Aleksandar Hemon
#44. 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.
Ellen Key
#45. Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
Charles Churchill
#46. It's a good thing when you don't dare do something if you don't think it's right. But it's not good when you think something's not right because you don't dare do it.
Sigrid Undset
#47. Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
Andre Gide
#48. Be, do, have as you desire, but dare not hurt a soul.
Zahida A. Khan
#49. The teen years are not a vacation from responsibility," we had told the columnist. "They are the training ground of future leaders who dare to be responsible
Alex Harris
#50. I always feel like people in general are much weirder and insane than anybody really wants to admit. How dare somebody watch anything and go, 'That's not real!' Go on the subway. For five minutes.
Max Greenfield
#51. The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.
John Dryden
#53. pit - those with nothing left to lose will dare anything. And why not? They have everything to gain.
Bodie Parkhurst
#55. I cry, because I know what I felt from him, even if I cannot and dare not allow it be named.
Jasinda Wilder
#56. What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#57. Well, thought I, he's either sleeping or he's dead. If the former, I dare not wake him. If the latter, I cannot!
Rick Yancey
#58. This is so," Illyrio agreed, "but the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble. More wine?
George R R Martin
#59. I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
Billy Sunday
#60. I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.
Anne Frank
#61. We dare not forget, lest we become a nation that does not only not know its roots but where it's going
Mzwakhe Mbuli
#62. Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd;
How long, how short, we know not: - this we know,
Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,
Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.
Robert Blair
#63. But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
Colin Farrell
#64. How dare you? How dare you, of all people, not have faith in him?" Livia shot back. "All that negativity? You believe it. That's what he is to you? A burden?" Livia's mouth stayed open with the shock of his words and her bravery.
Debra Anastasia
#65. The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.
Joanna Baillie
#66. I know the Smiths, I snapped, because lord knows you can launch any kind of criticism at me, lord knows I've heard it all before, but don't you dare doubt my musical knowledge. There's not much I can do right, just this one thing, but you cannot take this one thing from me.
Leila Sales
#67. Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Marcus Sakey
#69. Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
T. S. Eliot
#70. Is that a nautilus?" he asked. "Close, but no. It's an ammonite." "An ammonite? What's an ammonite? Sounds like an Old Testament people overdue for smiting." "Ammonites are not a biblical people," she replied in a tone of strained forbearance. "But they have been smited." "Smote
Tessa Dare
#71. THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.
Ken Wilber
#72. We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.
Paul Tillich
#73. It was an effort not to peek over her shoulder. Don't you even dare, a voice hissed in her head.
Sarah J. Maas
#74. Alone with the dead, I dare not go out!
Bram Stoker
#75. Before I draw people's attention to a solution, I want to make sure they are emotionally engaged with the problem. If the text answers a question, I dare not go there until everyone in the audience really wants to know the answer.
Andy Stanley
#76. We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.
Cassandra Clare
#77. Drat. I'm not sure anyone even noticed the kiss."
"I noticed it." He rubbed his mouth with the side of his hand. The taste of ripe plums still lingered on his lips. He found himself unaccountably thirsty.
Tessa Dare
#78. Because people fight most fiercely when they dare not admit even to themselves that their cause is unjust.
Robert Silverberg
#79. But alas, my dear child, we are the slaves of custom, the dupes of prejudice, and dare not stem the torrent of the opposing world, even though our judgments condemn our compliance! However, since the die is cast, we must endeavor to make the best of it.
Fanny Burney
#80. That is such crap. How dare you be so fraudulently flirtatious, cowardly and dysfunctional? I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage. Goodbye.
Helen Fielding
#81. How dare you have wino tell me not to do drugs.
Bill Hicks
#82. The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#83. I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.
Charlie Sheen
#84. I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
Emily Dickinson
#85. When the opportunity was at your hand, you did not dare to seize it. When the opportunity was lost, it became precious.
George R. Stewart
#86. The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.
Wilfred Grenfell
#87. I'm shocked and appalled that you would dare to suggest I might not be completely original and unique in every way. I'll have you know that I'm a very special snowflake, Ms. Cavanaugh. There's no one like me anywhere in the world. I know, because I checked.
Louisa Edwards
#88. Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#89. I hate myself in interviews. All of a sudden, you stop and you're like, 'Chris, how dare you?' I don't live in Darfur. I have both legs. But you can't walk around all the time being like, 'I'm so grateful I'm not in Darfur.'
Chris Evans
#90. It's like this," he repeated in a low voice, just for her. "I'm not that sort of man. I don't wait for the things I want.
Tessa Dare
#91. I accept Reality and dare not question it, Materialism first and last imbuing.
Walt Whitman
#92. Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.
Michel De Montaigne
#94. There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.
Anthony Hope
#95. Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.
Euripides
#96. Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.
Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet
#97. Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.
Alexander Lowen
#98. Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question ... How dare we do that which angels dare not do? Is it possible for us to argue that that which is forbidden in heaven is praiseworthy on earth?
George Q. Cannon
#99. Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
Walter Scott
#100. There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
Charles Baudelaire
