Audacity Quotes
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I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.
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All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.
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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
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It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
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The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.
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In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
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Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin-retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade.
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In black and white it had been easy to ignore. But here was a television station with the audacity to send pictures of real red blood into everyone’s home. Our boys in the field were bleeding in color.
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Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.
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Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person – to say nothing of one's neighbor! – as God loves him.
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In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her-hadn't even wanted her, truthfully-but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.
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Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations.
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Males always have something pathetic about them, at every age. A fragile arrogance, a frightened audacity. I no longer know, today, if they ever aroused in me love or only an affectionate sympathy for their weaknesses.
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Writing requires maximum ambition, maximum audacity, and programmatic disobedience.
