Quotes About Challenge

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning

to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect—but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Mantener la disciplina en circunstancias ideales no tiene ningún mérito.

Staring at danger may not be pleasant – but closing your eyes will not make the danger go away, and with closed eyes you will surely be destroyed by it.

a las bravas.

Votbinnik had Jandorf practically in Zugzwang (his pieces all tied up, Bill explained)

I know. A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. And you, Lee, have got to worry even if you must kill yourself to invent something to worry about.

A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself

Con toda seguridad es preferible que el inmoral aprenda la moral a través de la adversidad, a que el moral olvide serlo en la prosperidad.

You get it? There isn't any industrial research group of any size that isn't trying to develop a space-warp engine, and Consolidated and U.S. Robots have the lead on the field with our super robot-brains. Now that they've managed to foul theirs up, we have a clear field. That's the nub, the . . . uh . . . motivation. It will take them six years at least to build another and they're sunk, unless they can break ours, too, with the same problem.

But, tell me, how would you get us out of our present mess?" "Your present mess. I had nothing to do with it." "Consider the question suitably modified.

The Foundation can never lose, but that does not mean the rulers of the Foundation can't.

There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances.

Il modo più semplice di risolvere un problema è negare che esista.

caída de un imperio es un suceso colosal, y no se combate con facilidad. Viene dictada por el crecimiento de la burocracia, la asfixia de la iniciativa, la esclerosis del sistema de castas, la condena de toda curiosidad...

Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.

Váyase al carajo -Bueno, para allá vamos. Usted viene conmigo

He's a woman!" he shouted, horrified. Padre Mendoza and the others came running up, only to stand and stare, mute with amazement, at the virginal breasts of the warrior. "It's going to be much more difficult to kill him now," Padre Mendoza sighed finally.

Uno de los más fornidos salta al ruedo. «Inche Caupolicán!», se presenta.

Aqui la existencia no es facil y para muchos la muerte es una invitacion al descanso.

Todos tenemos una reserva de fuerza interior insospechada, que surge cuando la vida nos pone a prueba

Dobbiamo rimettere tutto in discussione, dalla religione alle leggi, dalla scienza agli usi e costumi.

A cada uno le llega el momento de alcanzar su nivel de incompetencia.

To dismantle the system that sustains civilization is very difficult and takes time, but we are achieving it, bit by bit. The complex and fascinating task of inventing a new order to replace it is long.