Quotes About Challenge

I challenge you to a duel!" screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.

What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!" And that one, imagine, smiles and says: "Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!" And—bang!

No,' I reflected, 'I will fight against this Egyptian darkness for as long as fate keeps me here in the wilderness. Granulated sugar Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ye gods!

Aren't there enough plays already? There are such lovely plays and so many of them. If you were to start playing them you couldn't get through them all in twenty years. Why do you want to write? It must be so upsetting!

No, you mustn't give way. It's simply that you don't know what the theater's like. There are some complicated mechanisms in this world but the theater is the most complicated of them all...

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility: he was strong and she was weak.

life is like weeds

Adventure, the first great theme of the novel.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

My dear colleagues, as you know, the greatest misfortune for a man is a happy marriage; he hasn't the slightest hope of a divorce.

Chi tende continuamente verso l'alto deve aspettarsi, prima o poi, di essere colto dalla vertigine.

Suntem cu toÈ›ii încredinÈ›aÈ›i c? e de neînchipuit ca marea dragoste a vieÈ›ii noastre s? fie ceva uÈ™or, ceva lipsit de orice greutate; ne imagin?m c? însuÈ™i posacul Beethoven, cu pletele sale cumplite, cânt? al s?u "Es muss sein!" spre a cinsti marea noastr? dragoste.

Ningún movimiento que se plantee transformar el mundo soporta la burla ni el desprecio.

Aquel que quiere permanentemente «llegar más alto» tiene que contar con que algún día le invadirá el vértigo.

That's because you've only known life in its worst aspect, said Dr. Skreta. You've never known how to live. You've always thought that it was your duty to be, as they say, in the thick of things. In the core of reality. But what was that reality for you?

The only things that held them together were their defeat

Mas quando voltou a representar-se Ruzena uma luz mais viva, compreendeu que a via do amor, que Bertlef lhe estava a sugerir, era para si impraticável - tratava-se da via dos santos e não da dos homens comuns.

Sabe quem são aqui os misóginos mais violentos? As mulheres. (...) Porque pensam vocês que elas se esforçam por nos seduzir? Unicamente para poderem desafiar e humilhar as suas congéneres. Deus inculcou no coração das mulheres o ódio pelas outras mulheres porque queria que o género humano se multiplicasse.

El tiempo de la vida se convirtió para él en un simple obstáculo que hay que superar a velocidades cada vez mayores.

Hay ideas que son como un atentado.

This is not a romance — I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient

I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.