Quotes About Challenge

Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way.

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed.

Exploration is a dirty game.

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.

There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

Maybe we could put this off until I do something more impressive than puke on a suspect who shit all over the interview room. We could, but seriously, how are you going to top that?

Don't puke on my scene, ninja boy.

The day you get used to this , turn in your shield and your gun. You won't belong to the human race anymore. ~ Vince to Mendez

Either I've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.

It's always better to attack than to defend, Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka? she asked. I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful, I replied.

She glared at him. Why are you forever asking hard questions? He smiled. Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one. Daja shoved him, grinning.

Have I mentioned that I hate it when you're right?, she asked instead. Alanna shook her head. No, I don't believe you have. As far as I could tell, you never thought I was right.

Daja: He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other. Lark: I didn't say they liked it. - Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases

Then I'll Dog him, and I'll catch him, and I'll cage him again,' I said. 'And again, and again, and again, until his patron tires if him and the Snake tires of me.' 'Or until he kills you,' someone else said. 'Nobody's killing Beka,' Rosto told them, his eyes turned to black stone.

The god inside the man glanced at Aly. This is your chessboard, I believe, my dear. Aly beamed at him. So it is. And the game begins.

It was like trying to balance on a pair of knife blades. Who had thought of this mad form of travel in the first place? And why had no one locked them up before they passed their dangerous ideas on to others?

The harder the goal, the more important it is

ALANNA AWOKE AT dawn, ready for another session with Coram's big sword.