Quotes About Challenge

It's hard to have anything, isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

You know what he said? Bloom said maybe he's trying to stop.

The pudgy one moved his bishop and immediately turned the beetle around and started it trudging back the other way. "If the beetle just cuts across the corner, is time up then?" Starling asked. "Of course time's up then," the pudgy one said loudly, without looking up. "Of course it's up then. How do you play? Do you make him cross the whole board? Who do you play against, a sloth?

Qué me dice, Starling? —Digo que maldita sea, señor Crawford. ¿Qué dice usted?

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtray, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

Problem-solving is hunting;

Easy reading is damned hard writing.

The easiest reading is damned hard writing.

Courage can be developed. But it cannot be nurtured in an environment that eliminates all risks, all difficulty, all dangers.

Many successful business owners have told us that they enjoy short periods of rough times in their chosen industries because they weed out much of the competition.

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

A little rebellion is good now and then.

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

If you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing

If you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done

I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.

If you want something you never had, you have to do something you've never done

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

And so she went on, galloping through thickets of diphthongs, searching—I was sure—for the sound that would not disgrace her husband, and failing at every turn.

We shall now seek that which we shall not find.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.