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  • There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

    "Ted Nugent Calls Himself 'A Black Jew at Nazi-Klan Rally,' Stands by Obama Beheading Statement" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 18, 2012.
  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

    Order   Eels   Doubt  
  • Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

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

    Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик
  • 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?

    Eliphas Levi (2013). “The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

    Evil   Special   Liberty  
    George W. Bush's address to the Nation in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2005.
  • There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

    Audacity   Lines   Fine  
    Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.156, Penguin
  • Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

    Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Hero   Tears   Trying  
  • Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

    The Quest for Certainty Ch. 11
  • I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

    Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan
  • Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist-hiding in the shadows, afraid to step out and expose the dream to the light, fearful that it will disintegrate to the touch.

    Dream   Artist   Light  
    Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.54, Penguin
  • A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

    Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”
  • This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

    "Thoughts and Adventures".
  • The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.

  • The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

    Telegram to President John F. Kennedy, June 16, 1963.
  • Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

  • 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.

    Running   Country   Stars  
  • Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

  • 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.

    Running   Animal   Men  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (1951). “Essays from the Parerga and Paralipomena”
  • The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.

    Mother   Fun   Heart  
  • 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.

  • Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

    Fear   Risk   Audacity  
    "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 63,
  • audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

    Risk   Quality   Audacity  
    Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”
  • 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.

    Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.161
  • If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

    Carl von Clausewitz (2012). “Principles of War”, p.65, Courier Corporation
  • Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

  • 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

    Believe   Cutting   Dark  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.29, Hachette UK
  • The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

    Art   Creativity   Hands  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1619, Delphi Classics
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