Quotes About Challenge

This just kept getting worse. Would there ever be good news?

Seth, I'm about to lose it. Enough about going after the artifact. It's crazy. Can't you tell when an idea is doomed? Are you programmed to self-destruct?

A RIM FEX EN DRA PUSE

When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?" "I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.

Great , Elend thought. I've filled my inner council with a bunch of thrill-seeking masochists. Even worse, I've decided to join them.

You can't just avoid the game by saying you don't want to play.

No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy.

Can't be any harder than sitting here and having a staring contest with mortality.

That was terribly thoughtless of you. What good is having friends if they don't put you in mortal peril every once in a while?

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in. And eaten their dinners.

You don't fly, you fall the wrong way.

An easy life taught one very little.

I was a little busy being shot at." "Busy? Aw, mate. It doesn't take any effort at all to get shot at.

You are out of control, Rand al'Thor,' she declared. I do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. He sounded exhausted. ... I hate what you just did, Rand,' Nynaeve snarled. 'No, "Hate" isn't strong enough. I loathe what you've done. What has happened to you?' Test him!' Rand whispered, voice dangerous. 'Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.

Exhaustion," Dalinar said, "pain, suffering. This is what victory usually feels

You had to adapt. Move. Change. That was good, but it could also threaten identity, connection, and sense of purpose.

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.