Quotes About Challenge

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

She quoted First Lady Eleanor Franklin: "Do at least one thing each day that scares you.

No crime too small' was never exactly Moriarty's slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

Often they were arranged according to the whim of the owner, as scientific classification was still in flux, new systems evolving all the time. Categorising a universe that shifted every time a new ship blew into port proved both necessary and a challenge....some classified shells as "knobbed" versus "wrinkled," "the right lip broad" versus,"parallel lips," or listed insects as "naked wings," "sheathed wings" or "creeping.

But it's so hard, Papa... Those things that are most beneficial to us generally are. But they are also worth the effort.

It was horrible how the hardest things could be the truth.

The second day was worse. The second day my good foot and leg hurt too.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

How hard can it be?

The only thing we'll be handing you is your head. (Fraser) Ooo. Scary. Have you ever thought of making up children's tales? You might actually succeed in frightening a two-year-old. (Sin)

Don't you dare. (Callie) Dare what? (Sin) Turn those serious eyes on me, Sin…or else I'll bash you with my pillow again. (Callie)

Life at sea is hard. And often deadly. (Morgan) Then why do you do it? (Serenity) Because we love it. (Morgan) A glutton for punishment, aren't you? (Serenity)

Knave of hearts and bane to all women, be it known that you must win your tournament for me, otherwise I shall have a most difficult time explaining to my new lord my newest addition. -A letter to Stryder, from Rowena

Now, why did he have a hard time believing that?...Because it would be the first time in your life that you ever won an argument with Lord Thick and Knotty Pate. (Morgan)

To adventure the likes of which I think neither of us have ever seen. (Morgan) And to fate. To the very fate that has abandoned us to turmoil. (Serenity)

Cookie didn't dare light a fire, so we have cold food this evening. (Morgan) Yum. Hard-boiled wood, my favorite. (Serenity)

You worthless excuse for a dung dealer. (Stryder)

She stiffened at the thought and cast him a chiding glare. "Put your weapon away." He arched a daring brow at that. "Why should I when I have half a mind to make good use of it on you?" "So you admit to having only half a mind, then?" Rowena & Stryder

How do you feel?" Phantom asked him as he set his cup aside to pin him with a frown. Christian leaned his head to the right to stretch one of the sore muscles in his neck. "Fit to ride." Phantom scoffed. "Interesting, since you look as if you're only fit to fall over." -Phantom & Christian

I was thinking of setting myself on fire tonight. Would you mind? (Callie) What? (Sin) Ha! I knew it. I knew I could get you to talk. Just think, a whole word, too. Who knows if I keep this up, I might have you speaking an entire sentence by week's end. (Callie)

Heard from whom? (Lochlan) From me, you worthless lickspittle. So tell me what miracle dragged the three of you from your holes and got your lazy hides all the way here. And a day early, no less. (Sin)

The academic and writer Sara Ahmed has written brilliantly about the idea of the feminist killjoy, and why it should be embraced – because feminism isn't about making everyone around the table feel comfortable. It's about being disruptive, challenging, and changing the terms of the debate, so that, over time, almost certainly with discomfort and backlash, everyone becomes freer.