Quotes About Challenge

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Whatever had he meant by it? And how dare he mean anything!

His years of dependency were past. It was time to grow up and take charge. It was not going to be easy. But he had long ago realized that he must treat his blindness as a challenge rather than as a handicap if he wished to enjoy anything like a happy, fulfilled life.

She would try to paint. She would always try, for the road to perfection held an irresistible lure, even if the destination remained always tantalizingly just beyond the farthest horizon.

when one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one's life, one had to keep on striding forward—or retreat and be forever defeated.

She felt annoyed that he of all people was to be the witness to her failure.

But life and pain go hand and hand. On e cannot live fully unless one faces pain at least occasionally.

She felt very close to despair. It seemed that everything was going wrong around her.

This was a predicament that she would have to get herself out of, though there did not seem to be any way.

You would not dare," she said indignantly. He looked at her sidelong. "That is one word that is inadvisable to use in my hearing," he said, "unless you are quite prepared for me to take you up on it. I would certainly dare." "You are no gentleman," she told him. "Why is it," he asked her as they ascended the marble steps, "that you still say that as if you had just now made the discovery?

La naturaleza es una maravilla, ¿verdad? — dijo ella, sentándose en una roca de superficie plana y ordenando las conchas sobre la rodilla. —Siempre — convino él—, incluso cuando sus efectos son catastróficos para los seres humanos que han intentado dominarla o desafiarla. Es la quintaesencia del artista perfecto, y también sabe producir cosas tan frágiles y exquisitas como esas conchas.

Life has kicked us in the teeth, Abby, and I am about to kick back. Hard.

A shocking humiliation, is it not? he said. What are we going to do about it, Allie? Marry each other as a consolation?

It would be a challenge worth undertaking . . . to rid your face of that look of longing . . . and to replace it with a look of—something else.

Into what had she allowed herself to be goaded?

By what right had he come back here to torment her again when she had won a hard-fought battle with her own feelings?

She knew only that the evening before had been like some kind of nightmare in which everything that could have gone wrong had done so.

But if we all avoided doing anything for which we are not exceptionally gifted, we would do almost nothing at all and would never discover what we can become. Instead we would waste much of the span of life allotted us in keeping safe, confining activities.

Part of the task of composing a life is the artist's need to find a way to take what is simply ugly and, instead of trying to deny it, to use it in the broader design.

Stop overestimating the challenge and underestimating yourself. —MARY CHRISTENSEN

We are none of us born into Eden, Doc said reasonably. world's plenty evil when we get here. Question is, what's the best way to play a bad hand?...

At times, the solution to a maze is to reduce it to embers ans walk straight through the ashes. ? Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

Show God what yer made of, man. Pucker up and kiss the cross.

I ain't movin' to Arizona! Dammit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions.