Quotes About Challenge

Dissent and dissidence are overwhelmingly the work of the young. It is not by chance that the men and women who initiated the French Revolution, like the reformers and planners of the New Deal and postwar Europe, were distinctly younger than those who had gone before. Rather than resign themselves, young people are more likely to look at a problem and demand that it be solved.

By the late 1960s, the idea that "nanny knows best" was already starting to produce a backlash.

Even after the Allies emerged triumphant in 1945, these concerns were not forgotten: depression and fascism remained ever-present in men's minds. The urgent question was not how to celebrate a magnificent victory and get back to business as usual, but how on earth to ensure that the experience of the years 1914-1945 would never be repeated. More than anyone else, it was Maynard Keynes who devoted himself to addressing this challenge.

the old ideological Left was part of the problem, not the solution. In

here, it was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of conservatives felt emboldened to challenge the 'statism' of their predecessors and offer radical prescriptions for dealing with what they described as the 'sclerosis' of over-ambitious governments and their deadening impact upon private initiative.

I knew there was a minefield ahead of me and no way to avoid the bombs, and even if you didn't actually step on the bombs, you were already transformed by constantly looking out for them.

I wonder if we're truly subverting anything, or if we're just playing with a loaded gun.

People had gone west leaving behind all sorts of trouble; what they found in California was the space and freedom to create new trouble.

God placed the fossils there when He created the rocks, to test our faith, he responded at last. As He is clearly testing yours Miss Philpot. It is my faith in you that is being tested, I thought.

Struggle. Keep struggling and struggling until the end of ends, then struggle some more. There's no fighting just to die.

Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help." Rhoan "Better start ducking those flying piggies then, bro, because I'm totally serious." Riley

If I had a talent I could claim, it would be as a finder of trouble. Which is undoubtedly what I'd find by sticking my nose where it had no right to be. But would I let a thought of trouble stop me? Not a snowflake's chance in hell.

If life were easy, it wouldn't be difficult.

There's always a solution, I see that now," she said. "I just didn't understand it at first. It's not the solution I wanted. But there's always a solution. It's just not the one I assumed it would be.

nothing like a few days of people telling you that you are mad and deluded when you know that you are telling the truth to turn the brain.

Piracy is a lot of fun; you should try it.

A young man in one's hotel bedroom is capable of being explained, but a corpse is always a hindrance.

The challenge facing the synagogue is not an increase in the cost of membership. The challenge facing the synagogue is a decreasing cost benefit felt by its members.

Nothing fails like success. In other words, when a challenge in life is met by a response that is equal to it, you have success. But when the challenge moves to a higher level, the old, once successful response no longer works—it fails; thus, nothing fails like success.

You mentioned that the McGillahees would fight if provoked. I intend to provoke the bloody hell out of you right here and now.

Bereit für das nächste Abenteuer, Prinzessin?" "Bereit, wenn du es bist", sagte sie leise.

Preparada, Gwendolyn? —preguntó finalmente. Le sonreí. —Estoy lista si tú lo estás. [...] El lanzo su bastón de paseo al aire, lo atrapó con destreza y dijo: —Yo estoy listo. ¿Y tú, princesa? —Estoy lista si tú lo estás.

Oh, you're so wrong, Henry," she said. "In fact, it's only just begun.

You've got to jump off cliffs—and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY