Quotes About Challenge

Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.

I love writing. It's a fun challenge. It refuels me personally.

I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.

Wish I could prove I love you, but does that mean I have to walk on water?

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

That message on the wall was someone telling her something. Someone wanted to play with her. So all right. She would play. Maybe she was anxious. Maybe she was untrained. But Steve Bell knew one thing about herself - once she had bitten in, tasted the mystery - she would not let go. She had gotten herself to this mountain. She could do this.

Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive, and either you hit your head on a rock and it splits your skull and you die, or, that blow to your head is so inspiring that you come back up and you do the best work you ever did. But — you have to take the dive. And you do not know what the result will be.

I will lead you by a shorter way. You will be with your mother soon, but you will find the going hard.

My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.

It happened that at the late age of twenty-seven I had run away from home. High time, you might say; but rebels can't always be choosers.

grasping at straws is the only way to find a needle in a haystack.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion." Gerald R. Ford

The goddamn kid just sat there and out of the blue thrust his middle finger in the air and waved it at Jon with a brazen defiance only ten-year-olds and Nazis can muster.

It didn't seem right to Buy that it was so easy.

Is it harder for a coward to fight with his fists than to kill himself? Or again, is it easier for him to die than to endure a prolonged cross-fire of women's wrath and scorn?

To love and be scorned—does Fate hold for us a greater inconvenience?

Life is a serious problem to a man over thirty. To a man under thirty it is simply a game.

The book of war, the one we've been writing since one ape slapped another, was completely useless in this situation. We had to write a new one from scratch.

It's a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time.

I struggled so hard for a goal, without realizing that the goal is the struggle. It's what makes me stronger, smarter, and better. Growth doesn't come from a comfort zone, but from leaving it.

Great risks come with great rewards.

From 1973 onward, if nine intelligence analysts came to the same conclusion, it was the duty of the tenth to disagree. No matter how unlikely or far-fetched a possibility might be, one must always dig deeper.

They also wouldn't let me climb the waist-thick trunk up to the square bunches of small

shuffle. "I told myself that I had to figure out all the rules of this world, but I get now that I've gotta go further.