Quotes About Challenge

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

English is my first language, but when I started shooting for 'Definition of Fear,' I actually had trouble with my lines! It was so weird, because I never have trouble with my lines in Hindi!

After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.

Like Humpty Dumpty, in the old nursery rhyme, putting the country back together again would not be easy. This feeling of separation and alienation was not a passing thought but lived into the next century.

You can't win, Darth. Strike me down, and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

Why I stick my neck out for you, when all you ever bring me is trouble, is beyond my capacity to comprehend.

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.

The question is not at present, however, of removing mountains, a thing that will one day be simple to us, but of waking and rising from the dead now.

There is endless room for rebellion against ourselves.

Perhaps the best thing for the princess would have been to fall in love. But how a princess who had no gravity could fall into anything is a difficulty--perhaps THE difficulty.

Of all things let us avoid the false refuge of a weary collapse, a hopeless yielding to things as they are. It is the life in us that is discontented: we need more of what is discontented, not more of the cause of its discontent.

Our Lord was not in the habit of explaining away his hard words. He let them stand in all the glory of the burning fire wherewith they would purge us.

A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before he can frolic.

In a word, why were they not men at worst, when at best they ought to be more of men than other men?--And here lay the difficulty: by no effort could I get the face before me to fit into the clerical mould which I had all ready in my own mind for it.

about him, and that all the signs were that he

You are a slow learner, Winston. How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Hasta que no tengan conciencia de su fuerza, no se rebelarán, y hasta después de haberse rebelado, no serán conscientes. Éste es el problema.