Quotes About Challenge

Put that in your mustache and smoke it.

What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.

Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.

One has to dare if one wants to get anywhere,' said Mrs. Bantry.

Anybody who can belive six impossible things before breakfast wins hands down in this game.

They have a genius, young ladies, for getting into various kinds of trouble and difficulty.

That rebellion of mine was an important turning point in my life.

It's all very well to talk like that," said Mr. Rafiel. "We, you say? What do you think I can do about it? I can't even walk without help. How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock.

It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

I congratulate you on having such a unique and beautiful problem.

You must remember, too," he added, "that we deal with no ordinary criminal, but with the second greatest brain in the world." I forbore to pander to his conceit by asking the obvious question.

It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us.

What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes—that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.

In the words of a best seller, 'You've nothing on me.

Nobody shall drive us away," I said. "We're going to be happy here." We said it like a challenge to fate.

Inspector Hardcastle walked in manfully. Unfortunately for him he was one of those men who have cat allergy. As usually happens on these occasions all the cats immediately made for him. One jumped on his knee, another rubbed affectionately against his trousers. Detective Inspector Hardcastle, who was a brave man, set his lips and endured.

Sheila's about the only young girl in this place and she naturally assumes that she ought to have it all her own way with the young things in trousers. Naturally it annoys her when a woman, who in her view is middle-aged and who has already two husbands to her credit, comes along and licks her on her own ground. [...] No, I think it's age daring to defeat youth that annoys her so much!

She took disaster as it should be taken, dealing with it competently and thereby reducing it almost to insignificance.

So many things are difficult," said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often.

One's body is a nuisance, M. Poirot, especially when it gets the upper hand. One is conscious of nothing else-- whether the pain will hold off or not--nothing else seems to matter.

One does not blow one's brains out because one has a headstrong daughter!

I don't like the idea of your being a governess at the beck and call of tyrannical mother's and their tiresome brats.

Life was not a matter of safety— it must be hazarded to win the game.