#dare

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

— Colin Farrell

#far #future #i #into #miss

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody! ↗

— Frances Burney

#dare #dearest #dedicate #dislikes #fears

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

— Jules Feiffer

#dare #died #forgive #his #jesus

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#dare #else #free #little #madness

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. ↗

— John Cassavetes

#artist #cult thing #dare #difficult #difficult thing

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

#backward #commissions #dared #down #fall

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. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bitterest #closet #courage #dare #enemy

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. ↗

— Marie de France

#all things #because #dare #high #i

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. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#education #forth #here #i #important

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

#blood #body #cause #dared #her