Quotes About Challenge

I devised a somewhat arbitrary way out of my own difficulties that evening.

It cost something: it cost almost more than she could manage to fight, and to keep on fighting, by this time.

And you can't adjust to bastardy?' He said evenly, 'Give me, perhaps, until tomorrow instead of today to achieve it.

How, in twenty days, do you create for a man a new and irresistible motive for his existence? And how, this done, do you preserve him and his family from a blow so devastating as to be, in some ways, worse than self-destruction?

At every second location Danny said monotonously, 'You can't do that,' and Plummer bridled and said, 'They built Sviajsk three years ago in four weeks. They felled the timber at Uglich and floated the logs down the Volga——' 'The cost. The cost, you fool!' Danny would scream.

Jerott stared up through his headache. 'I can manage,' he said. 'Yes. I think you'll manage better tied to your horse,' said Lymond.

Oh,' said Philippa. 'Checkmate,' Lymond said.

For a moment no one spoke. Then Lymond got to his feet. 'I have a better idea. You marry her,' he suggested.

Discomfort without hope of betterment is not a great springboard.

What can be done for these headaches?' [...] 'Short of execution,' Lymond said, 'I think the problem is insoluble.

I wasn't offering her pity, Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is how a person meets them, how they survive them. Given the inevitability of losses and disappointments in life, that's where the challenge is and the uniqueness. I was offering her sympathy.

If life was like a body of water, she had asked that she be allowed to walk again in its shallows; instead she had been abruptly seized by strong currents and pushed into deep water.

It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

I love you.' 'Bravely said – though I had to screw it out of you like a cork out of a bottle. Why should that phrase be so difficult? I – personal pronoun, subjective case; L – O – V – E, love, verb, active, meaning – Well, on Mr Squeers's principle, go to bed and work it out.'  

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

All right, God, send me to hell. You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

I don't ask You to make it easy for me—You can't do that, for all that You could make a world.

Mrs. Martindale worked, and worked hard. She worked doubly hard, for she was unskilled at what she did, and she disliked the doing of it.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.