Quotes About Challenge

The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought.

It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish.

Ä°nsan?n az?nl?kta olmas? tek kiÅŸilik bir az?nl?k olmas? bile deli olduÄŸu anlam?na gelmiyordu bir doÄŸru vard? bir de doÄŸru olmayan doÄŸruya sar?ld???n zaman tüm dünyay? kar??na bile alsan deli olmuyordun.

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

Nothing in the world is quite so irritating as dealing with mutinous children.

Oynad???m?z bu oyunda, kazanmak söz konusu deÄŸil. Ama baz? yenilgiler ötekilerden daha iyidir, hepsi bu.

February your grandmother!

what can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself?

had thought earlier in the night that you can't run when you are sodden from head to foot and weighted down with a rifle and cartridges; I learned now you can always run when you think you have fifty or a hundred armed men after you.

World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.

It's curious how it gets you down to have a sticky neck.

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against ones body.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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

Le sorprendía que momentos de aguda crisis no debemos luchar contra un enemigo exterior sino contra nuestro propio cuerpo.

Yapmak istediÄŸimiz ÅŸeylerin hep yap?lamayacak ÅŸeyler olduÄŸunu düÅŸünerek hayat?m?z? geçirmemiz tuhaf deÄŸil mi?

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse – hunger, hardship and disappointment being, the unalterable law of life.

Isn't it queer how we go through life, always thinking that the things we want to do are the things that can't be done?

Heureusement l'ennemi était on ne peut moins entreprenant. Il y eut des nuits où notre position eût pu être prise d'assaut par vingt boy-scouts armés de carabines à air comprimé, ou tout aussi bien par vingt girl-guides armées de raquettes.

En este país la cobardía intelectual es el peor enemigo al que tiene que enfrentarse un escritor o periodista, y ese hecho no parece haber recibido la atención que merece.

Si la libertad significa algo, es el derecho a decirles a los demás lo que no quieren oír.

Well, Hilda and I were married, and right from the start it was a flop. Why did you marry her? you say. But why did you marry yours? These things happen to us. I wonder whether you'll believe that during the first two or three years I had serious thoughts of killing Hilda. Of course in practice one never does these things, they're only a kind of fantasy that one enjoys thinking about. Besides, chaps who murder their wives always get copped.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word—Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.