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“If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.”

Ifs Firsts Long Enough Interest Forget Risk Madness Revenge Mess Pension Audacity

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“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.”

People Want I Can Might Fighter Retreat Resent Playing Music Audacity Foo Fighters

Author:Dave Grohl

“Barack Obama said yesterday that the economy was 'going to get worse before it gets better.' See, that's when you know the campaign is really over. Remember before the election? 'The audacity of hope!' 'Yes, we can!' 'A change we can believe in!' Now it's, 'We're all screwed.'”

Knows Believe Said Remember Economy Election Campaigns Yesterday Barack Get Better Audacity It Gets Better Yes We Can Audacity Of Hope

Author:Jay Leno

“Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.”

Ifs Wells Might Boys Color Fit Prove Blue Wit Standing Out Audacity Muster

Author:Josh Kilmer-Purcell

“You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business -- that takes a lot of audacity.”

Trying Tears Hero Universal Midst Scream Panic Audacity Composure

Author:Lidiya Ginzburg

“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.”

Should Littles Character Interesting Wonder Goes On Trade Oil Nonsense Length Retiring Private Life Supper Audacity Interesting Characters

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.”

Share Inner Life Skillful Audacity

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can also be extremely creative and has the audacity to musically understand all that she is doing.”

Sound Creative Wonderful Produce Expected Singers Brown Can Not Audacity

Author:Rufus Reid

“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.”

Two Country Lying Interest Hell Special Advice Relation Audacity Two Countries Jeopardize

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.”

Knows Should Care Health Politician Health Care Delay Audacity

Author:Nancy Northup

“I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.”

Thinking Audacity Polarization

Author:Lee Daniels

“Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.”

Mean Failing Achieve Ordinary Audacity

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.”

Needs Election Audacity

Author:Francois Hollande

“Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.”

Chance Failing Succeed Audacity

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.”

Men Found Safety Conservation Audacity Steadfastness

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“I'd known enough flush times and lean ones to understand that money came and went. And that one day I'd also lose my looks, my seemingly boundless energy and maybe the ability to catch the eye of an attractive man and the audacity to Rollerblade. My name would be forgotten. So would bad reviews, and good ones. But loving a child is something that lasts. Long after all the rest is gone, that's what endures.”

Men Looks Children Long Enough Would Be Eye Lasts Names Energy Loses Ability Known Gone One Day Endure Forgotten Attractive Reviews Boundless Audacity Bad Reviews Attractive Man

Author:Joyce Maynard

“We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die.”

People Ifs Ends Dies Movement Duty Taxes Gains Income Saving Assets Stamps Inheritance Savings Audacity Capital Gains Inheritance Tax Capital Gains Tax

Author:Liam Fox

“What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?”

People Knows Men Want Hate Black White Blood Asking Fingers Black People White Man Audacity Dripping Hate Him

Author:Malcolm X

“There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.”

Sometimes Youth Poet Strikes Brilliant Audacity

Author:Edward Hirsch

“The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be, to have the patience to start and let the work teach you, to be willing to lead when you need to lead, and to listen. To have a sense of generosity and empathy, but not over-empathy, because accountability is so critical to building solutions that work.”

World Way Needs Dream Situation Teach Humility Building Willing Empathy Solutions Critical Generosity Accountability Audacity

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“Audacity, audacity, always audacity.”

Courage Military Audacity

Author:George S. Patton

“[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“I don't want to call it audacity, it's too good a term, to appoint Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as attorney general should damn well be respectful of John Lewis.”

Want Should Wells Term Damn Session Respectful Attorney Audacity Be Respectful

Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel

“In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.”

Way Black Middle Middle Aged Audacity Touchstones Audacity Of Hope

Author:Barack Obama

“Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.”

Currency Audacity

Author:Van Jones

“Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.”

States Use United United States Gentleman Usa Torture Illegal Audacity Ladies And Gentlemen

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.”

Guy Three Left Numbers Records Thanks Audacity Hollies

Author:Graham Nash

“Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.”

Men Challenges Audacity Counterfeit Eco Save Mother Earth

Book:The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny

Source: The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny

“With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.”

Courage Risk Bravery Audacity

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.”

Trying Hands Young Space Expectations Scientist Miles Hotel Naive Hand In Hand Unreasonable Elevators Audacity Underwater

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.”

Plans Industry Method Planning Vitality Vigor Audacity Enterprising

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.”

Men Art Philosophy Character Belief Realizing History Expression Essence Safety Capability Surroundings Audacity

Book:Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader

Source: Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader

“To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

Firsts Love Is Pay Kissing Method Compliment Veils Audacity

Author:Victor Hugo

“Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.”

Ends Faces Faith Belief Difficulty Uncertainty Greatest Gifts Audacity Better Days Audacity Of Hope

Author:Barack Obama

“[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.”

Persons Stories Political Social Compassion Principles Economic Objects Six Extremes Absence Description Originality Truthful Stereotype Objectivity Good Story Brevity Audacity Lengthy

Author:Anton Chekhov

“You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'" "But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that.”

People Knows Want Stills Country America Guy Issues Son Products Decided Lays Fingers Finished Audacity

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.”

Lines Fine Fine Lines Audacity Idiocy

Book:Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.”

Political Politics Crime Exposed Refuge Audacity

Author:Tacitus

“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.”

Heart Spiritual Levels Higher Weapons Conscience Strikes Opponents Cheeks Offensive Higher Level Audacity Turn The Other Cheek

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.”

Lying Courses Doubt Atheism Letters Atheist Priests June Viewpoints Audacity If There Is A God Jesuit Thinking God

Author:Albert Einstein

“I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.”

Ifs Knows Ends Fate Gun Blame Holes Temples Triggers Audacity

Book:How to Kill a Rock Star

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.”

Ifs Men Looks Has Beens Country Running Stars Forget Party Majority Forgotten Crowds Neighbor Resistance Accomplished Minorities Stripes Audacity

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Pulling out his daggers, he kept them in his sleeves, just in case he happened upon someone who wouldn’t understand why a tall, dark-haired man wearing really dark sunglasses and unseasonably warm clothing would be armed to his fangs. Really, Officer, I was trying to protect humanity by killing these things that suck human souls out to live past their twenty-seventh birthday just didn’t cut it. Why no one would believe that, he couldn’t imagine. Really, the audacity of modern courts and judges.’ – Sundown”

Source: Retribution

“Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.”

Strategy Principal Audacity

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“God beckons storm clouds and they come. He tells the wind to blow and the rain to fall, and they obey immediately. He speaks to the mountains, 'You go there,' and He says to the seas, 'You stop here, and they do it. Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator...until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.”

Looks Faces Fall Speak Sea Creation Wind Mountain Rain Clouds Blow Creator Storm Obedience Audacity Storm Clouds

Author:David Platt

“Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person was who said this was okay. After spending all that money on a bachelorette weekend, a shower, and often a flight across the country, they expect you to go to Williams Sonoma or Pottery Barn and do research? Then they send you a thank-you note applauding you for such a thoughtful gift. They're the one who picked it out!”

Knows Want Firsts Persons Said Country Research Picks Okay Notes Spending Flight Thoughtful Shopping Weekend Showers First Person Audacity Barns Pottery Thank You Note Bachelorette

Author:Chelsea Handler

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land.”

“[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.”

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”

Ifs Doe Art Real School Break Courage One Thing Air Break Out Blasphemy Audacity Truism Real Courage

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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