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  • It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

    Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr
  • Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

    Men   Steps   World  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.252, Graphic Arts Books
  • Life is short and far too fragile. Whatever you dream of doing, begin. Put a first step or a "down payment" on your schedule and make it happen. Create memories. Have fun. Have an adventure. Take a (reasonable) risk. Be audacious. Laugh out loud. See what happens.

  • I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

    Witty   Learning   Dinner  
    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.181
  • Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

  • The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.

    Museums   Hands   Choices  
  • The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

    Age   Coal   Pouring  
  • I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

  • Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

    Twitter post from Jan 22, 2015
  • I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

    Wise   Age   Looks  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.

    Art   Wall   Skills  
  • Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

  • My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady.

    Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.82, Vintage
  • In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

    Tongue   Modesty   Duty  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 100
  • [On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them everything is colossal rather than well-proportioned, audacious rather than well-considered, and if they do not attain their goals, it is because they exceed them.

    Mean   Greatness   Russia  
  • Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.

  • People who walk in audacious faith don't stop and pray. Audacious faith teaches us to push and pray.

    People   Praying   Teach  
  • Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.

    Heart   Humble   Arms  
  • The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

    Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”
  • I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.

    Flags   Half   World  
    Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.389, Velvet Element Books
  • My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

    "Architect of Optimism". Interview with Angel Gurria-Quintana, www.ft.com. April 13, 2007.
  • The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.

    Two   Risk   Insightful  
  • You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

    Soldier   Together   May  
    Quoted in Harold Macmillan, The Blast of War: 1939 - 45 (1968) (entry for 16 Nov. 1943)
  • You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.

    Years   Plans   Audacious  
    "Grapevine: De Niro apologizes for 'first lady' joke", www.foxnews.com. April 5, 2012.
  • I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

  • It is absolutely imperative at the outset that you come to terms with this simple yet life-changing truth: God is for you. If you don't believe that, then you'll pray small timid prayers; if you do believe it, then you'll pray big audacious prayers.

  • Go wild and let go. Usually the most audacious ideas are the ones that get noticed.

  • The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.

    Mean   Goal   Proud  
    "Crash diets and good habits". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 21, 2012.
  • Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

    George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.170, The Floating Press
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