Quotes About Challenge

The word "future" and females is a dangerous combination.

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

I feel that there has to be a purpose to what we do. If there was no hope at all, we should just sleep or drink and wait for death. But we don't want to do that. And why? I think something tells us that we should struggle. We don't really know why we should struggle, but we do, because we think it's better than sitting down and waiting for calamity.

But it was like beginning life anew without the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, like learning to become left-handed in old age.

El mundo está cambiando ?le había dicho?. No me gusta, pero soy como el pájaro eneke-nti-oba, que cuando sus amigos le preguntaron por que volaba a todas horas respondió: Los hombres de hoy han aprendido a disparar sin errar y por eso yo he aprendido a volar sin posarme en las ramas.

If you want to experience the ultimate thrill, you have to be willing to pay the ultimate price."   —Big wave rider, Mark Foo

If they can put one man on the moon, why can't they put them all there?

SILVANA, I SAID: "You're in a pickle." "Yeah, I know, but I've gotten used to living in brine.

Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

Don't be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed at.

Becoming a flight attendant was at once rebellion and escape

A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.

Understandably, our Darwinian bodies and primitive brains are not going to catch up with this astonishing state of affairs. We live, in this new safety, in this new time of plenty, like drunken sailors freshly delivered from terrible peril.

Humans struggle with the underside of the tapestry, unable to see the beauty in their situation, for they cannot know how the trouble of life fits with The Plan.

Yeah, right, I thought. God hadn't asked me if I wanted to go deeper, and thank you very much, I liked the shallows. It's easier to play when there's no current. In the middle you lose your footing; you lose control. You lose.

There're some things that can't be helped. They just are. You either live with them or you don't. Simple as that. There's nothing simple about it. You got that right. You certainly got that right.

Trouble is our only defense against boredom.

The more dangerous life is, the better. Scary equals important, right?

Here, in the land of happy thoughts, there are no gross injustices, no abuses of authority, no economic and political systems to challenge, and no reason to complain. Here, we are all happy.

If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.

I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time.