Quotes About Challenge

It was never easy being a witch. Oh, the broomstick was great, but to be a witch you needed to be sensible, so sensible that sometimes it hurt. You dealt with the reality—not what people wanted.

true freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes.

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My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman," it said. "I'll be the judge of that," warned Granny, and added, "Don't call me woman." "Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz," said the demon smugly.

Ye gods, it was so much better when there were just four of us up against that bloody great dragon, Vimes thought as they walked on. Of course, we nearly got burned alive a few times, but at least it wasn't complicated. It was a damned great dragon. You could see it coming. It didn't get political on you.

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

Mister Lipwig, the world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can. And in my experience, those who say that it can be done are usually telling the truth. It's just a matter of thinking creatively.

First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years findin' out how you passed it.

Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

Anything could make Wentworth sticky. Washed and dried and left in the middle of a clean floor for five minutes, Wentworth would be sticky. It didn't seem to come from anywhere. He just got sticky.

He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest.

When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

She'd struck Esk once before – the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough idea of what to expect from life.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Why? Why not do things differently? Why should we do things how they have always been done before? And something inside her suddenly thrilled to the challenge.

When you have dived off a cliff, your only hope is to press for the abolition of gravity.

Brutha tried to put it out of his mind, which was like trying to empty a bucket underwater.

The Post Office was the underdog, and an underdog can always find somewhere soft to bite.

You fight a war to change the world, and it changes into a world with no place in it for you, the fighter. Those who fight for the bright future are not always, by nature, well fitted to live in it.

a hint was to Esk what a mosquito bite was to the average rhino because she was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

That's how it goes, you think you're on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you.

As every student of exploration knows, the prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first. If it is still attached to his leg, this is a bonus.

They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.